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London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Travel
Bird
London
Roost
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Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
Charles W. Chesnutt / Author
Home
Chickens
Godly
Roost
Sin
Sins
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller / Playwright
Home
Editing
Roost
Structure
Writing
Birds
Came
Story
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You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.
Kim Shattuck /
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Team
Rule
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
Chickens
Coming Home
Glad
Roost
Farm
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It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.
Norman Davies / Historian
National Sovereignty
Roost
Sovereignty
Cure
Formed
Ruled
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
Henry Rollins / Musician
New York
Charlie
Doe
Embodiment
Roost
Royal
Sound
Experience Music Me
Total
Label
Parker
Recordings
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Roost
Ours
Threats
Worlds
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If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
Cherry Jones / Film Actress
Chicks
Ignored
Roost
Weight
Happily
Options
Several
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Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for too long, uneducated actors have ruled the roost in the acting world.
Naseeruddin Shah /
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Uneducated
Ruled
Youngster
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Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
Tony Scott / Film Director
Gentle
Mum
Ran
Roost
Steel
Love Family Time
Fist
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Trump's lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths - have all come home to roost.
George T. Conway Iii /
Contempt
Lying
Roost
Norms
Truths
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My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.
Francis Ford Coppola / Film Director
Critics
Roost
Life Money Always
Irrespective
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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
Lynn Johnston / Cartoonist
Dear
Meek
Roost
Terrified
Upper Hand
Ruled
Upper
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New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.
Rutger Bregman /
Breeding
Brussels
New Ideas
Roost
Westminster
Washington
Hague
Moderate
Parties
Rarely
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There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
Being Honest
Movie Industry
Music Industry
Prejudice
Roost
Sexuality
Taken
Thinking
Years
Life Music My Life
In The End
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Jeremiah Wright / Pastor
Chickens
Coming Home
Indignant
Roost
Terrorism
Yards
African
Brought
Overseas
Palestinians
Right Back
Supported
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The woman who rules her roost is one of two things: she's illogical, therefore spoiling her children, or she's an iron-fisted disciplinarian, adopting the attitude that rightfully belongs to the man and losing the precious softness that is her birthright.
Lorne Greene /
Adopting
Birthright
Illogical
Roost
Softness
Belongs
Disciplinarian
Precious
Rightfully
Spoiling
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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
David Attenborough / Broadcaster
Environmental
Home
Space
Climate
Climate Change
Coming Home
Enormous
Growth
Natural
Natural World
Population
Population Growth
Roost
Sheer
Years
Coming
Limit
Places
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I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
Bradley Whitford / Film Actor
Home
Acumen
Administration
Coming Home
Conservative
Horse
Race
Roost
Temporary
Thinking
Time Home Always
Totally
Bankrupt
Guys
Policies
Question
Radicals
Utterly
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The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.
Shilpa Shetty / Film Actress
Beach
Busy
Complexion
Fairness
Grass
Greener
Indian
Proud
Roost
West
Tan
Applying
Noticed
Ruled
Wherever
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