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"I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me."
"All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security."
"After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride."
"Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment."
"In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house."
"The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things."
"Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house."
"The White House is a bully pulpit."
"My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel."
"Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization."
"Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led."
"A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!"
"Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?"
"We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes."
"The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate."
"The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles."
"I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics."
"[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary."
"How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?"
"I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape."
