Apartment Quotes - Page 4

• My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Son, House, Support

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• All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Felt, Comfortable

  "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

  Paul Wesley

  Moving, Cities, House

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

  James Dyson

  People, House, Vacuums

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• I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

  Susan Sullivan

  Summer, Mother, Rivers

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

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• That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent.

  Irene Cara

  Independent, Firsts, Steps

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• I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  Want, Stuff, Bedroom

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• It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

  Sasheer Zamata

  Bed, Done, Hard

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2013

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• Having a place to live is a fundamental right and the state must establish a framework that ensures that apartments are affordable.

  Martin Schulz

  Fundamentals, States, Framework

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments, I have people that work for me from China.

  Donald Trump

  Japan, People, Way

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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• What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivational, Art, War

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• The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

  Charles Bukowski

  Twelve, Finals, World

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• The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.

  Aimee Mullins

  Beautiful, Sleep, Kissing

  "Aimee Mullins Muses on Beauty, Fame". Interview with Katya Foreman, wwd.com. May 30, 2011.

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• A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Couple, Husband, People

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• My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Uncles, Father, Islands

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, People

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

  Tim Gunn

  Doors, Cooking, Tuning

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• I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

  Amy Sedaris

  Nice, Play, Fake

  Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 2, 2007.

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• I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

  Amy Sedaris

  Kitchen, Magic, Use

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• I love my apartment in New York.

  Amanda Seyfried

  New York

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Russia

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• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  Taylor Swift

  Home, Cat, Long

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• If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

  Mo Rocca

  Grandmother, Years, Meals

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• There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Running, Morning, Sleep

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