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“I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.”

Mean Home Law Saws Crime Needed Protect Towns Victim Protection Crowns Attorney Home Town Nova Scotia Novas

Author:Peter MacKay

“I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.”

Home Study Fronts Politician Paper Pages Towns Communist Papers Home Town

Author:Robert Vaughn

“I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.”

I Can Home Sports Growing Towns Accustomed Boston Great Sports Home Home

Author:Wes Welker

“I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.”

Ifs Kind Different Home Trouble Towns Atmosphere Home Town

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.”

People Way Littles Made Character Home Simple Towns Accidents Characteristics Village Cartoon Eccentric Puppets Home Town

Author:William Jackson

“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.”

People Men Want Giving Doe Home Jobs Desire Nations Cities Conditions Position Praying Towns Factories Godly Praying To God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.”

Ifs Want Needs Home Names New York Towns Addresses Suspicious Visitors Clerks

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.”

Trying Mind Helping Home Motivational Asks Found Conversation Towns Assumption Unexpected Destination Open Mind Visiting

Author:Pico Iyer

“The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.”

People Want Firsts Reason Home First Time Towns Small Town

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.”

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Book:A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

“If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.”

Ifs Home Kids Pages Towns Magazines

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.”

“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”

“I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.”

Ifs Thinking Home Growth Smart Towns Lots Of Money Smart Growth

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.”

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Author:Terry McMillan

“I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town.”

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Author:Maisie Williams

“Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.”

Ifs Should Real Home Sound Musician Okay Towns Yeah Checks Ass Hey Youtube Stay At Home Real Music Spotify

Author:Nicholas Payton

“You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.”

People Two Play Home Seeing Towns Tired Home Town

Author:Janis Joplin

“Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.”

Home Mother Talking Towns Home Town

Author:Maureen Daly