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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Burt Rutan We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Carlos Alazraqui We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Bill Haslam We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel We keep looking for some good to come out of this. Maybe it might help in putting race relations back on the front burner after they've been subjugated so long as a result of the Reagan years.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Bill Owens We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Carl Rowan We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
    1981 column.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bob Menendez We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Disgrace
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bob Ross We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Burgess Owens We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Black Kettle We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie;
    Home's a long, long way from us.
    I feel a dirty wind blowing;
    Devils and dust.
    Devils & Dust (2005) Devils & Dust
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Blank We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ben Bernanke Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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