- All My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Quotes
On comfort, safety and the pull of staying home.
These quotes look at home as both refuge and responsibility: the shock of no longer feeling safe in a place that once felt untouchable, and a quieter preference for staying in over going out. For more, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Am I feminist? I don't know. I'm not really sure what that is. I am all up for equality to a certain extent, although in the home, I do feel this is where the mother excels and the man needs to step back a bit. My family is from Nigeria, and this is our culture.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty.
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I joined Google and stopped working on robots - I'd built some self-driving tractors on farms in the meantime - I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby.
- Have Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020