Quotes with houses

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  • Bow Wow People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Margaret Mead People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Bryn Terfel People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Alexander Pope Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Walton That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Steinbeck The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Anselm Kiefer The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Arnold Newman The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Blair Underwood Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aaron Carter When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Bobby Davro When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Archibald MacLeish You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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