A.M. Homes Quotes
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
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It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.
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I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
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Wake me up when I'm a size 5.
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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
