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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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reagan refused to demonize his foes. Instead he charmed them, with a few exceptions, including Tip O'Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House and the embodiment of the liberalism Reagan sought to reverse.
- Hurdles
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- Nov 07, 2020
On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.
- Cabin
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the cold and snow-rich Silesian winters, there were hour-long rides on Sundays in horse-drawn sleighs to my maternal grandparent's farm to have lunch and to spend the afternoon. The house was a magnificent 18th-century manor house in the nearby Altgabel with a great hall that was decorated with hunting trophies.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Clinton ratcheted up military aid to Colombia. Plan Colombia, as the assistance program was called, provided billions of dollars to what was, and remains, the most repressive government in the hemisphere.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once bought some enormous fireworks that were literally the size of sticks of dynamite. We would go into the field behind our house, slide them into the biggest cow pats we could find, and blow them sky high. It was exhilarating and, for the cows, incredibly confusing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.
- Females
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- Nov 07, 2020