Living Room Quotes - Page 12

• On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

  Dave Franco

  Mom, Thinking, Hollywood

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• To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, People, Understanding

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Smile, Phones, Years

  Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.

  Sister Parish

  Eye, Color, Style

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Kitchen

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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• I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

  Bill Nye

  Airplane, Kids, Moon

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• If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

  Ted Nugent

  Coyotes, Shooting, Rooms

  "Ted Nugent: Don’t Dismiss Him. He’s Dangerous!" by Lawrence D. Elliott, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

  David Talbot

  New York, Moving, Sleep

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• I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

  Megan Gallagher

  Years, Parent, Acting

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• America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  America, Judging, Parent

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• Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Moving, Eye, Hands

  Shirley Ann Grau (2012). “The Condor Passes”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Book, Writing, Rooms

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• Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Wall, Book, Emotional

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.94, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. ... Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Believe, Years

  "Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes".

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• My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Sports, Husband

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• Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

  Bill Maher

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.153, Rodale

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• Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Victory, Backyards

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.

  Chet Atkins

  Country, Song, Drinking

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• Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.

  Helen Garner

  Block, Two, Perfect

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• I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Brain, Age

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• We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hurt, Pain, Order

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• I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

  Jane Siberry

  Running, Home, New Relationship

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• It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

  Simon Kuper

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

  Gregory Harrison

  Voice, Singing, Rooms

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• An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Promise, Crafts, Rooms

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