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“Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.”

Home Age Wanted Values Support Musician Guitar Leaving Folks Singers Playing Guitar Great Family Leaving Home

Author:Sissy Spacek

“I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?”

Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get.”

Needs I Can Two Home Kids School Energy Practice Car Son Leaving My Son Leaving Home

Author:Chris Paul

“I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.”

Needs Home Silence Sky Land Travel Leaving Ancient Disturbing Converses

Author:Toni Onley

“I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.”

Stills Home Audience Comedy Leaving Reactions Interactive

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.”

Home England Leaving Hardest Ireland Hardest Thing Dublin

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.”

Said Country Home Fun Leaving Soldier Iraq Population Ignorant Coming Home They Said Infrastructure Guessing Crumbling Crumbling Infrastructure

Author:Bill Maher

“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?”

People Thinking Knows Looks Mean Persons Home Natural Consequence Standing Leaving Shoes Forgotten Like Me Smoking Irritating Sidewalk Irritated Natural Consequences Irritants

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.”

People Thinking Feels Home Happens Found Loss Our Lives Sadness Worst Leaving Treasure Sickness Going Away Overwhelmed Unbearable Parting Homesickness His Loss

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.”

Mean Important Home Truth Attitude Society Truth Is Leaving Pursuit Adopting Leaving Home

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.”

Thinking Home House Space Leaving Irrelevant Imaginative

Author:Toni Morrison

“many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.”

Believe Home Talent Skills Leaving Arrivals Leaving Home

Book:The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them

Source: The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them

“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.”