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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There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
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I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
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When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
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In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
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In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few.
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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.