Quotes with prison-house

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  • Annie Leibovitz The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caleb Cushing The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Daniel Webster The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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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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  • Adolf Loos The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Busy Philipps The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Boxer The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • William Shakespeare Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alice Walker There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Carl Bernstein There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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