Household Quotes - Page 17

• Nature meant me
  A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
  Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Silly

  "All for Love".

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• Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

  Max Perutz

  Success, Science, Technology

  "The Impact of Science on Society: The Challenge for Education". "Science and Technology and Future Human Needs" by J. L. Lewis and P. J. Kelly, 1987.

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• Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Successful, Rejects You, Idols

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• Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.

  John Sununu

  Cutting, Giving, Perspective

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• I grew up in a happy household.

  Kristen Stewart

  Grew, Grew Up

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

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• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Simple, New Job

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

  Little Richard

  Names, Hard

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Growing Up, Actors, Becoming

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• I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

  Jill Scott

  Grandmother, Men, Color

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• I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

  Jill Scott

  Successful, Men, America

  "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 25, 2007.

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• Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Unique, Two

  "A Warning To Kraft Foods: Eat Cadbury’s And You’ll Get Indigestion" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

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• I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

  Will Smith

  Crush, Girl, Catholic

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Kitchen, Bottles, Tables

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• In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Revenge, Names

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.212, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Family, Nature, Rights

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.147, TAN Books

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• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Georg Solti

  Mother, Intelligent, Six Months

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

  Alexander Herzen

  Generations, Development, Introducing

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• Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.

  John McCain

  Country, Training, Needs

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• I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

  Tony Visconti

  Sound, Brooklyn, Grew Up

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Icons, Target, Manhattan

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

  John Pilger

  Political, Underdog, Grew Up

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

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• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

  Marty Meehan

  Average, Break, Taxes

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• He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

  Bram Stoker

  May, Firsts, Please

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.216, Hayes Barton Press

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