Quotes with prison-house

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  • Beth Ditto When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Falcone When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Bruce Robinson When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. [2]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Anselm Kiefer When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Eugene V. Debs While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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  • Bill Hicks Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
    Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Captain Beefheart You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Rush Limbaugh You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Bill Engvall You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say "My Bad!".
    Heres Your Sign Live!
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • James Baker You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
    James Baker
    American attorney and political figure (1930 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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