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"it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness."
"The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out."
"Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics."
"If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director."
"The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality."
"There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle."
"The vast majority of unfaithful people are experiencing a conflict between their values and their behavior, and that is the mess of infidelity. It's not an either-or. The idea that you would ask, "How can you say you love your husband and you want to stay married, and you also are having an affair?" Because we are not the same woman, or the same man. Because sexual revolutions don't take place at home. Because for most of us, freedom wasn't something that we experienced in our family, but usually outside of our family."
"When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner."
"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk."
"I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be."
"Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly."
"I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody."
"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"
"I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed"
"A mobile home with a flat tire is a home."
"Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home."
"Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things."
"Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house."
"I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left."
"Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won."
