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"I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`."
"But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?"
"I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home."
"The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!"
"I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home."
"It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work."
"Poems aren't postcards to send home."
"It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home"
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
"At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored."
"Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on."
"KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives."
"Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home."
"If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell"
"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."
"I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home."
"Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home."
"If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else."
"I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost."
"You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?"
