Apartment Quotes

• We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.

  Connie Sellecca

  Girl, Four, Bathroom

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• I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

  Shalom Harlow

  Travel, Adventure, Ukulele

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• Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Islamic, Home, Community

  "Its goal more widely accepted than its leader". www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

  Robin Wright

  Travel, Past, Car

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• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Work, Nice

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• Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Running, Memories, Doors

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• I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

  Alicia Keys

  Mom, Sleep, Rooms

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• My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

  Lady Gaga

  Bedroom, Stage

  "Maxim Monday: Lady Gaga Says Everyone Wants To See Her You-Know-What". Maxim Magazine Interview, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

  Amos Oz

  Tiny, Born, Lows

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Pay, Fool

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• I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

  James Iha

  New York

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• I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

  Kylie Bax

  Sports, Naked, Sitting

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• There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

  Dabney Coleman

  New York, School, Thinking

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• The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

  Patty Duke

  New York, Insomnia, Shut Up

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.13, Bantam

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• Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

  Cy Coleman

  Piano, Left Behind, Behinds

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• The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Past, Men, Midnight

  Frederick Forsyth (2011). “The Fourth Protocol”, p.9, Random House

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• After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Civilization, Parent

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

  Salman Rushdie

  Nature, Fate, Firsts

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Teacher, Piano, Age

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• When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

  Mark Harmon

  Ukulele, Tvs, Company

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• If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Kids, Space

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• Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.

  Woody Allen

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

  Jim Bakker

  Believe, Car, Belief

  Jim Bakker, Robert P. Lamb (1978). “The Big Three Mountain-Movers”

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• There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

  Steve Forbert

  Guitar, Afternoon, Littles

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• I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Years, Numbers, Phones

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