Quotes with home-front

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  • Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bob Simon The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
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  • Sarah Bernhardt The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Bobby Farrelly The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Moore The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
    Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Herbert Marcuse The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?
    Surprised by Joy (1955)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billy Gibbons The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Campbell Scott The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bill McKibben The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Barry Gibb The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bob Barr The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Allan Bloom The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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