Living Room Quotes - Page 3

• I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

  Ricardo Semler

  Home, Meals, Rooms

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• If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Practice, Tape, Pieces

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• I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Father, Party, Years

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• It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Years, Impact, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

  Tippi Hedren

  Makeup, Kitchen, Rooms

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• We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Events, Rooms

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• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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• We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.

  Regina Brett

  Mean, Differences, People

  Regina Brett (2012). “Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.

  George Will

  People, Rooms, Messages

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Two, Office, Bed

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• My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

  Nikki Haley

  Home, Years, Parent

  "Dealing With Obama Is ‘Hardest Part Of My Job’". Republican Convention Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Sunday, Grace

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• And right now, you two jackwagons are right in the middle of my living room and I'm coming to take out the trash.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Two, Rooms

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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  Nate Berkus

  Mother, School, Rooms

  "Intriguing people for December 16, 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

  Chris Sarandon

  Actors, Rooms, Study

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Media, Iran, Play

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Sleep, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.156, Storey Publishing

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• I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Kids, Feel Better

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel - wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.

  Hideo Kojima

  Play, Want, Able

  "Hideo Kojima Predicts Console-Less Gaming Future" by Jim Reilly, www.ign.com. April 7, 2010.

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• When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Moving, Talking

  Anne Truitt (1987). “Turn: The Journal of an Artist”

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• Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

  Billy Graham

  Technology, Thinking, Television

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Eye, Law

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• When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.

  Cyriac Roeding

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Wall, Pride

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Teacher, Work, Home

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