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"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music."
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"I'm a real home girl."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening."
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"I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad."
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"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."
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"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
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"So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas."
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"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
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"And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students."
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"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
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"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
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"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."
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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
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"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
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