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My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
Lea MicheleI rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.
Kristen BellIn New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years.
Keith HernandezI have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.
Jean Craighead GeorgeMy goal is that after seeing 'Grand Canyon,' every person in the audience will go home knowing they have to conserve water: even something as simple as installing a low-flow toilet or showerhead, or turning off the faucet while they're brushing their teeth.
Greg MacGillivrayWhen I played at Minnesota, Green Bay, those northern cities, Buffalo, they wanted to have those championship games at home. It was going to be an advantage to be there with their fans and the cold weather and all that. But when you've got a Super Bowl, and it's the two best teams, you want ideal conditions. You want to play a great game.
Tony DungyAnd I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
Michelle ObamaShall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the GreatIllogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben CarsonWe are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.
Les BrownJust because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
Elvis PresleyI love 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition.' It feeds my Fantasy Dream Home monster that lives inside of me.
Dove CameronIt's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.
Jon KatzI don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love.
Jeffrey TamborEvery day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.
Alana BlanchardI liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi BerraI watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen KingI think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
Brene BrownSince my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook.
Blake LivelyIf your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.
Suzanne CollinsI have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.
Junot DiazIf you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Shelley LongGod is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister EckhartI watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.
Bobby KnightMore than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis PresleyI believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.
Nate BerkusI can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate BeckinsaleI'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
Ashley OlsenThe Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.
Medgar EversWell, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.
Richard O'BrienWhen you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.
Frank ThomasWhat I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
John MayerHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik IbsenI think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
Simon HoggartLet me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.
Terry McMillanBut once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.
Ed SheeranReading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe RuthYou end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.
Tom StoppardI think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.
Matthew DesmondIt's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.
John TrudellMy dad was traveling a lot, but when he would come home and cook, he'd cook pizza.
Hilary KnightThe worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
E. W. HoweWhen I found stand-up, it was like finding home.
Bobby LeeI also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.
Paul von HindenburgWhen I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't.
Tituss BurgessIt's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
Valentina ZelyaevaYou don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
Neil GershenfeldMy bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
Christopher FowlerIt behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
Samuel AdamsThe home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing