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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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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Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
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We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
