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Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs. -- Edith Head
There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner -- Thomas J. Stanley
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all. -- Lauren Bacall
Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. -- Tony Fadell
The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks. -- Herb Kelleher
When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere. -- Mel Gibson
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home. -- Christine Pelosi
Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night. -- Darrell Hammond
I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life. -- Pamela Anderson
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled. -- Franz Grillparzer
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
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive. -- John Legend
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district. -- Alex Berenson
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. -- Ryan Holmes
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment. -- Munindra Misra
I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home. -- Jay Inslee
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream. -- Madhuri Dixit
Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone. -- John Battelle
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. -- Christopher Alexander
The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won't give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet... it didn't. -- John Battelle
For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home! -- Carol Vorderman
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it. -- Kevin McCloud
How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me. -- Janet Evanovich
A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home. -- Peter Kuznick
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for. -- Brian Schweitzer

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