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"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

Louise Woodward, British Celebrity

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"Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us."

"Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us."

Barry Gibb, English Musician

Home, Thought, Day, Parents

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"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

Eliza Dushku, American Actress

51

"Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work."

"Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work."

Florenz Ziegfeld, American Producer

Home, Work, Hope, End

51

"I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden."

"I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden."

Lars von Trier, Danish Director

Home, Emotions, Forbidden, Radical

51

"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."

"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."

Philip Roth, American Novelist

Home, Temple, Army, Judaism

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"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader

50

"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."

"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."

Wilfred Owen, English Soldier

Home, Poetry, Force

50

"I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it."

"I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it."

Davy Jones, English Musician

Home, Life, Sex, Man

50

"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."

"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."

David Attenborough, British Journalist

50

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security."

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security."

Suze Orman, American Author

Home, Financial, Wealth, Security

50

"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."

"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."

John Lithgow, American Actor

Home, Work, Day, Fun

50

"I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself."

"I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself."

Jane Asher, British Actress

Home, Being, Name, Now

50

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

Home, Aesthetics, Clients

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"When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?"

"When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?"

Ryne Sandberg, American Athlete

Home, Forget, Play, Rest

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"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

George Grosz, German Artist

Home, Time, War, End

50

"My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white."

"My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white."

Fran Drescher, American Actress

50

"Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today."

"Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today."

Vince Gill, American Musician

Home, Being, Now, Today

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"On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France."

"On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France."

John Dyer, American Poet

Home, Content, France, Paradise

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"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."

"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."

Paddy Ashdown, British Politician

Home, War, Right

50

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow."

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow."

Leo Szilard, American Scientist

Home, Night, Sorrow, World

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"Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home."

"Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home."

Greg Walden, American Politician

50

"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."

"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Home, Being, Country, Old

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"An old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past."

"An old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Home, Dream, Comfort, Life

50

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."

Brooke Shields, American Actress

Home, Mom, Bed, School

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"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

Home, Children, Parents

49

"I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery."

"I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery."

Red Adair, American Celebrity

49

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

Genevieve Gorder, American Designer

49

"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

Home, America, Children, Englexpectation, Houses

49

"I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way."

"I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way."

Priscilla Presley, American Actress

Home, Wife, HusbBeing, Children

49

"Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan."

"Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan."

Zach Wamp, American Politician

Home, Men, Time, Women

49

"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

Home, Birds, Play

49

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Home, Americans, Right, Trees

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"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery."

"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery."

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

49

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

Home, Power, Heart, Consciousness

49

"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."

"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."

Bette Davis, American Actress

Home, Jungle, World

49

"I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate."

"I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate."

Siobhan Fahey, British Musician

Home, Play, Punk

49

"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."

"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

49

"On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy."

"On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy."

Travis Barker, American Musician

49

"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."

"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."

Francis Parkman, American Historian

49

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

Christopher Fry, English Playwright

49

"He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks."

"He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks."

Joseph P. Kennedy, American Diplomat

Home, May, President

49

"Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community."

"Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community."

Rick Renzi, American Politician

Home, Community, Ownership

49

"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."

"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."

Sergio Aragones, Spanish Cartoonist

49

"I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive."

"I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive."

Bo Gritz, American Soldier

49

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

Esther Williams, American Actress

Home, Time, Eyes, Light

49

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

Lily Tomlin, American Actress

49

"When I'm home, I'm relaxed."

"When I'm home, I'm relaxed."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

49

"This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life."

"This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life."

Julia Barr, American Actress

Home, Life, Profession

48

"If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck."

"If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck."

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

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