Atlanta Quotes - Page 5

• Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

  Muhammad Ali

  Government, Torches, Nervous

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese handcuffs.” Annabeth forced herself to stay calm. “How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.

  Rick Riordan

  Couple, Snow, Chinese

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• I know my own truth. I'm in a great relationship with a woman. Maybe before it used to bother me. Then I was like, ‘This is so stupid that this bothers me. Some of my best friends in the world are gay, and if this is bothering me, then that means I have an issue with that.’ Once I figured that out for myself, I thought, ‘I don't care what anyone thinks about me.’ That's why I think I've become an ally for the gay and lesbian community. I just got [an Ally for Equality Award] the other day in Atlanta. I've very proud of my role in the community. So say what you will.

  Matthew Morrison

  Stupid, Mean, Gay

  "Matthew Morrison Opens Up About His Sexuality, Glee and Going Back to Where It All Began". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

  Rick Riordan

  Wine, Sea, Kansas

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Europe, Sea

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him as well I met him in Atlanta; I went to one of his concerts; I would love to do a song with him. I respect him and really like his music.

  Bow Wow

  Song, Mets, Concerts

  "interview : Bow Wow picture". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.

  Ilona Andrews

  Burning

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes: A Penguin eSpecial from Berkley”, p.76, Penguin

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• Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?" "I said it's nothing major." "Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Bullshit, Three

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes: A Penguin eSpecial from Berkley”, p.23, Penguin

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• When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life.

  Elton John

  Mean, Agony, Organization

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• In a perfect world, Joshua‟s vertically gifted murderer would‟ve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would‟ve announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god‟s country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dream, Country, Religious

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• I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

  Cecily McMillan

  War, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Two, Parent

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• After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Careers, Desire

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Political, Georgia, Constitution

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• ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Night, Enjoy, Reader

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• Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

  Mark Martin

  Spring, Shock Absorber, Different

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• I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

  Justin Bieber

  House, Suitcases, Kind

  "Maclean's Interview: Justin Bieber". Interview with Nicholas Köhler, www.macleans.ca. December 15, 2009.

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Night, Soldier

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• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

  Tayari Jones

  Children, Cities, Leaving

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

  Marc Morial

  Reality, Perception, Dallas

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Texas, Doe, East

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Home, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

  Kasey Kahne

  Winning, Years, Track

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• I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

  Cynthia McKinney

  America, Looks, Republic

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