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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. – Daniel Day-Lewis

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life. – LeBron James

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines. – Susan Orlean

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. – Susan Orlean

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. – David Byrne

I like being at home and cooking. – Shania Twain

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. – Hank Aaron

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. – Kinky Friedman

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home. – Novalis

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. – Casey Stengel

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. – Jeanette Winterson

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. – Camille Paglia

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. – Matt Blunt

Going home must be like going to render an account. – Joseph Conrad

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas. – Larry David

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on! – Larry David

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. – Susan Orlean

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys. – Susan Orlean

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. – John Shadegg