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		I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kendrick Lamar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Antonoff
			
			
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		People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bob Saget
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patch Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. D. Salinger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Johns
			
			
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		And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saint Augustine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Irsay
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In our house, dinner is synonymous with family time. Recently, it has felt like the best chance for all of us to really connect - something that I find myself wanting more of as my kids are getting older.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanna Gaines
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leon Battista Alberti
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Just because I'm from North Harrow some people want me to be a proper chav. I'm not from a poor background, but we have a normal size house, and my mum is a nurse. I had to go to work otherwise I wouldn't be able to have done anything - there wasn't enough money for me to skive off. As for the Vicki Pollard thing - I don't let stuff like that bother me. I mean, she's a bit of a retard, isn't she?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Nash
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Williams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patti Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. E. Hotchner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				China Anne McClain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Cantor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kaui Hart Hemmings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ina Garten
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Webster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cheryl Mills
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edmund White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on 'Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,' we learned she didn't allow him to have a girlfriend until he'd finished university, and she learned - to her unfeigned horror - that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Hepworth