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“I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?”

Years Home Fighting Half Hell Five Worst Findings Green Prison Coming Home Acres Half A Year

Author:John McCain

“My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.”

“This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.”

Knows World Years Home Lasts Dies Names Strong Decision Enemy Duty Approach Twenties Jew Missions Hesitation Future Decisions

Author:Julius Streicher

“We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.”

People Years Two Home Kids Three Company Office Work Out Three Years Accommodate Basements

Author:Nancy Fox

“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Years Home Left Painting One Day Husband Moved Credit Deception California Hawaii

Author:Margaret Keane

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris”

“You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.”

Knows Years Said I Can Home Age Remember Mother Left Parent Kitchen Restaurants Chef Apprenticeship Home Home

Author:Jacques Pepin

“You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.”

Men Years Has Beens Stills States Home Bigs President United Deals United States Five Heard Five Years Prisoner President Obama Cuba Bud Back Home Approved Havana

Author:David Letterman

“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”

Years Home Running Baseball League Hitting Home Run

Author:Mickey Mantle

“The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.”

Should Years Home Running Guy Team Balls Defense Tigers Home Run Lsu

Author:Andrew Stevenson

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.”

Years Stories Home America Culture Sides Mom Involved Conflict My Family Raised My Mom Pops Our Family Household Grandparent Back Home Ethiopia Formative Years Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.”

Years Firsts Important War Home Film Actors Stars Lines Talking Saws Important Things Hearing Dialogue Fighter Ties Sarcastic Nuts Princess Solo Great Actors Exploding Leia Death Star

Author:Bryan Singer

“When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?”

People World Years Littles Whole Home Kids Father Whole World Little Kid Stunned

Author:Mel Brooks

“I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."”

Ifs Giving Trying Years Stills Done Home Jobs Actors Healthy Dancing Good Job Skeletons

Author:Mel Brooks

“Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.”

Giving Years Sometimes Home Differences One Day Ten

Author:Anatole France

“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.”

Years Kind Stills Self Home Dream Sleep Consciousness Goes On Your Dreams Coming Home Jet Lag Jet Lag

Book:Animal Dreams: A Novel

Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel

“In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.”

Men Years Country Home Lasts Faces Can Do Equal Majority Equality Convinced Convince

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.”

Needs Years Home Levels Built Majority Significant Despite Decline Equity Housing Triggers Mortgage Withdrawal Homeowners Foreclosure Home Equity

Author:Alan Greenspan

“We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.”

Knows Years May Home Names Left Havens Population

Author:Barbara Holland

“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.”

Years Believe Has Beens Home Age America Cities Successful Civilization Sorry Decades Apartment Great Cities

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.”

Way Years Play Character Home Cities New York Strikes New York City Amazed Chekhov

Author:Neil Simon

“Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.”

Trying Years Mind Home

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.”

Years Two Home Lasts Used Childhood Evening Chairs Sheep Corn Helpers Pipers Shearer

Author:Lady Gregory

“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”

Years Doe Home Turns Family Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Does my Bum Look Big in This?

Source: Does my Bum Look Big in This?

“It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.”

Ifs Years Believe Long Has Beens Two Enough Home I Believe Travel India Twenties Two Years Globes Modest Going Home Twenty Two Teachable

Author:Sara Jeannette Duncan

“Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.”

Ifs Years Home Might Earth Imagine Mere Climate Change Treated Aliens Barbarians Descendants

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.”

Years Home Age Cold Blanket

Author:Candace Wheeler

“Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.”

Years Two Home Law Realizing Travel Ems Two Years

Book:One on the House

Source: One on the House

“Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.”

People Thinking Way Years Home Left Realizing Family Food Grew Grew Up

Book:The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

“I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.”

Years Home

Author:Big Jim Sullivan

“I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.”

Thinking Men Trying Years Sometimes Hard Problem Home Young Mother Girl Roles Wife Mets Years Ago Traditional No Problem Jade

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!”

Thinking Knows Years Wells States Home President Cutting Presses Eight Spending Barack Holiday Texas Reporters Brushes Hawaii Home State

Author:Jay Leno

“For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?”

Knows Years Wells Hard Home School Acting Senior Schooled Juggling Senior Year

Author:Julia Garner

“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.”

Years Home Form Three Left Parent Chance Football Needed Balls Three Years Divorced Second Chance

Author:Vinnie Jones

“Im grateful for my health, glad Im making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I dont take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. Its a gratitude list. It works.”

People Years Stills Home Laughing Wife Growing Gratitude Daughter Grateful My Wife Lists Glad Likes My Daughter Coming Home Making People Laugh Burgers Harlem

Author:David Alan Basche

“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.”

“I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.”

World Years Looks Home Eye Half Comfortable Other Half Nigeria

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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