Quotes with coffee-house

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  • William T. Sherman If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Gaston Bachelard If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Teena Booth If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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  • Abraham Lincoln If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lou Holtz If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Carol Shields If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 283
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brad Feld In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google's gigabit Internet.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Diogenes of Sinope In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Bill Laswell In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Paxton In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Bill Conti In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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