"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

Home, Work, Famous, Modesty

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"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

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"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

John Green, American Author

Home, Memory, Comfort, Life

"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

Lesley Garrett, English Musician

Home, Truth, Opera

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Home, Family, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy."

Randy Neugebauer, American Politician

Home, Time, Positive

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Home, Privacy, Identity, Trust

"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

Home, Charity, Giving

"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Home, Paradise

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Home, Intellect

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Home, Truth, Emotion, Homelessness

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"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

"More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy."

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

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"I don't use old music."

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"I only want to give a metaphysic for my music."

"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."

"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."

"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."

"Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin."

"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."