- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
House Quotes
The homes people leave, and why.
Not every house quote here is about comfort — one describes real backlash a filmmaker faced over a controversial title, while another speaks to moving comfortably between very different social settings. See Love quotes for the gentler side of home life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
- Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an air conditioning engineer and we lived in a three-bedroom terraced house in Langley before moving to a four-bedroom house in Maidenhead, where my parents still live.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020