Household Quotes - Page 15

• The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

  Peter Kay

  Painful, Plugs, Sock

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• Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.

  Billy Crystal

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  James Herbert

  Boys, Parent, Catholic

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• The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

  Tim Foley

  Teacher, Names, People

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• If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

  Graham Swift

  Offering, Views, People

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

  Matt Damon

  Mom, Dad, Two

  "Matt Damon: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Dad, Caring, Chaos

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• If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married." She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with."

  Max Greenfield

  Running, Wife, Directors

  "The Max Factor". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 25, 2013.

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• One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Blessed, Names, India

  "Interview with Indian industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. April 6, 2011.

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• People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Mother, Running, Children

  "'All I want in life is to walk along the beach, holding my lover's hand'". Interview with Jonathan Franklin, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

  Hayden Christensen

  Girl, Mother, Two

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

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• Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

  John Cornyn

  Zero, Real, America

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• I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

  Len Cariou

  Sweet, Children, Growing Up

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• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  Vince Cable

  Home, Growth, Income

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• I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

  James Badge Dale

  Crazy, People, Dancer

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

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• I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, Dad, School

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• I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

  Ann Brashares

  Nice, Way, Busy

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• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  Kay Boyle

  Duty, Difficult, Performing

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• In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

  Edie Falco

  Laughter, Insane, Celebration

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• I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.

  Armie Hammer

  Wife, Support, Together

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

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• My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

  Chanel Iman

  Girl, Mom, Mother

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• I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

  Darrell Issa

  "Interview with Representative Darrell Issa". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

  Andrea Jung

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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