Baltimore Quotes - Page 3

• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up.

  Sterling K. Brown

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

  John Waters

  Moving, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of the women were in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and men were shop boys and things like that. I happened to be in Philadelphia, but the family was in New York. I could see what the union was doing for them.It really saved their lives.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Boys, Men

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

  John Waters

  San Francisco, Left, Provincetown

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

  John Waters

  Years, Couches, Wanted

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• [My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore. He told me later that this guy was coming around, and the guy seemed to be for the workers, so he signed up. It turned out that guy was an IWW organizer . My father didn't regret signing up; he just really didn't know what was going on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Regret, Father, Sweat

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Ravens, Fans, Tattooed

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...

  Rand Paul

  Party, Cutting, Years

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

  Polly Bergen

  Beautiful, Towns, Trust Me

  "'Night Music''s Polly Bergen is Back in Baltimore". Interview with James Howard, www.broadwayworld.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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• I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Mother, Father, Years

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• I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Attention, Pay, Pages

  RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 15, 2010.

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• He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.

  Hines Ward

  Inspirational, Leadership, Ravens

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• Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  Ron White

  Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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• I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee.

  Jonathan Ogden

  Ravens, Proud, Firsts

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• Dean Bartoli Smith's Never Easy, Never Pretty will help satisfy the hunger of so many Baltimore Ravens fans wishing to re-live the club's remarkable 2012 title year. It's a virtual play-by-play re-enactment. But, more than that, it's about the long love affair that's consumed so many in Baltimore, which commenced with a team called the Colts and continues, strong as ever, with the beloved Ravens.

  Michael Olesker

  Strong, Team, Years

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• You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.

  David Simon

  Guy, Three, Problem

  David Simon (2008). “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, p.170, Canongate Books

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• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  War, People, Helping

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• I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Believe, Emotional

  "Helen Merrill (Part 3)". Interview with Marc Myers, www.jazzwax.com. February 4, 2009.

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Coffee, Glasses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

  Jacoby Jones

  Ravens, Want, Retiring

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• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

  John Waters

  Revenge, School, Thinking

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