House Quotes
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Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.
Marjorie Liu
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When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
Cate Blanchett
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I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
Bert Lance
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
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I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.
Jack Garratt
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You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.
Tony Kushner
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I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
Joe Frazier
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What does a house want to be?
Louis Kahn
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It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.
Arun Jaitley
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When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.
Billy Crystal
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It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.
Louise Jameson
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But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
William Cobbett
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The White House is a strange place.
Marlin Fitzwater
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
Adolf Loos
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You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?
C. S. Lewis
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I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
James Larkin
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My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.
Jenny Lewis
