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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

Home, Censorship, Charity, End

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"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is."

"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is."

Billy Carter, American Celebrity

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"I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined."

"I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined."

Jon Porter, American Politician

Home, Horses, State, States

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"If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes."

"If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes."

David Ricardo, British Economist

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"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

Ann Beattie, American Writer

Home, Adventure, Answers, Vitality

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"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet

Home, Life, Borrowing, Debt

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"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."

"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."

Armstrong Williams, American Journalist

Home, Time, Work, Attention

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"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Home, Needs, Night, Wonder

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"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market."

"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market."

Austin O'Malley, American Physicist

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"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head."

"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

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"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."

Satchel Paige, American Athlete

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"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that."

"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

Home, Father, Church, Evening

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"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."

"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."

Ellen DeGeneres, American Comedian

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"There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home."

"There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home."

Delia Smith, British Entertainer

Home, Being, Cooking, First

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"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."

Betty Friedan, American Activist

Home, Men, Society, Husbson

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"I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night."

"I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night."

Charlie Watts, British Musician

Home, Love, Hate, Night

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"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

Charles Henry Parkhurst, American Clergyman

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"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."

"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."

Judith Martin, American Author

Home, Work, People

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"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle."

"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle."

Stephan Jenkins, American Musician

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"When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly."

"When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly."

Portia de Rossi, Australian Actress

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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

Lin Yutang, Chinese Author

Home, Travel, Old

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"I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years."

"I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years."

Jim Sullivan, English Musician

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"The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction."

"The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction."

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

Home, Right, State, Thinking

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"You see much more of your children once they leave home."

"You see much more of your children once they leave home."

Lucille Ball, American Comedian

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"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."

"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."

Henry Lawson, Australian Writer

Home, Deep, Old, Road

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"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."

"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."

Bobby McFerrin, American Musician

Home, Music, Time, Father

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"Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home."

"Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home."

Mike Fitzpatrick, American Politician

Home, Ability, Children, Internet

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"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

"Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home."

Philip Levine, American Poet

Home, Poetry, Nothing, Now

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"Don't come home a failure."

"Don't come home a failure."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

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"Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is."

"Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

Home, Movies, Time, People

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"When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them."

"When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

Home, Love, Movies, Choices

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"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."

Charles A. Jaffe, American Journalist

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"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."

Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist

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"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian Athlete

Home, Country, Now, Years

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"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home."

"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home."

Ruby Wax, American Comedian

Home, Mom, Mother, Waiting

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"The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal."

"The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal."

Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor

Home, Christ, Months, Old

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"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

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"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

Leonid I. Brezhnev, Russian Statesman

Home, Europe, Fate, May

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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

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"I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties."

"I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties."

Blake Lively, American Actress

Home, Work, Want

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"It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home."

"It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home."

Linda M. Godwin, American Astronaut

Home, Right, Safety

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"It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas."

"It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas."

Larry David, American Actor

Home, Country, Dawn

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"With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym."

"With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym."

Carmen Electra, American Actress

Home, Women, Want

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"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."

"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Home, Care, Clothes, Existence

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"Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem."

"Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem."

Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman

Home, States, United

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"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

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"I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table."

"I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

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"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."

"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."

Russell Banks, American Author

Home, Life, Kids, Reading

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

Cornelia Funke, German Author

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"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."

"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."

Mary Mastrantonio, American Actress

Home, Idea, Acting, Night

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