Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.
A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.
Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
