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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. -- Albert Claude
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. -- James Caan
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut. -- Terence Stamp
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave. -- Diablo Cody
I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about. -- Bill Hader
I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism. -- Pamela Anderson
I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home! -- Enrique Iglesias
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home. -- Matt Blunt
I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson. -- January Jones
I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there. -- Marcel Dionne
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. -- Julia Gardiner Tyler
I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy. -- Charlaine Harris
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! -- Allen Tate
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. -- Jesse Jackson
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. -- Roald Dahl
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. -- Geoff Mulgan
For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills. -- Judy Greer
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. -- Martin Freeman
I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you. -- Naomie Harris
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. -- James A. Michener
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. -- Lady Gaga
I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it. -- Pharrell Williams
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion. -- Siri Hustvedt
I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there. -- Aidan Turner
I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people. -- Larry Norman
Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus. -- Stephen Rodrick
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. -- Oscar Hijuelos
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg! -- Linwood Barclay
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius! -- Ted Allen
I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. -- Ice T
Honest work is much better than a mansion. -- Leo Tolstoy
Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching. -- Jon Tester
Life is a mansion of opportunity: love is the key. -- Debasish Mridha
For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.... -- Allen Tate
I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife. -- Ella T. Grasso
The cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity! -- Todd Stocker
Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion -- Nicki Minaj
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. -- Charles Barkley
...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself... -- St. Teresa of Avila
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you. -- Saul Bellow
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. -- Stephen Baxter
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. -- John Milton
I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night. -- Jim Carroll
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn't buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love. -- Mara Wilson
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand. -- Antonio Machado
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. -- Anna Godbersen
OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel. -- Stephen Richards
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent. -- William Butler Yeats
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. -- George Stillman Hillard
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion. -- Woody Allen
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis. -- Thomas de Quincey
A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues. -- George Barr McCutcheon
When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,' -- Geraldine Ferraro
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion? With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest... -- Brandon Sanderson
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars. -- Peter Criss
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest... -- Brandon Sanderson
IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK. -- Jon Bon Jovi
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. -- William Jennings Bryan
Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in. -- Gene Simmons
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. -- William Jennings Bryan
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. -- John Keats
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. -- George Eliot
I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE! -- Wyclef Jean
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? -- Thomas Gray
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night. -- Khalil Gibran
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. -- William Butler Yeats
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled. -- John Hiatt
We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. "What do we do now? -- Rick Riordan
I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me. -- Corey Haim
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures... -- John Muir
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. -- John Milton
When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion. -- T.F. Hodge
One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something -- Francis Ford Coppola
When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright! -- Daymond John
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake. -- Argus Hamilton

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