“It’s a family house.”
About his house in Malibu, California.
Interview with Los Angeles Times, 2015
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Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 20ff. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, pp. 334–8.
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David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor
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Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
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William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.
Dispatch to Brig. Gen. Stephen Hurlbut (July 1862)<!-- published where? -->
1860s, 1862, Dispatch to Stephen A. Hurlbut (July 1862)
Context: No rebels shall be allowed to remain at Davis Mill so much as an hour. Allow them to go, but do not let them stay. And let it be known that if a farmer wishes to burn his cotton, his house, his family, and himself, he may do so. But not his corn. We want that.
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.
Bong Joon-ho (1969) South Korean film director and screenwriter
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