Columbia Quotes - Page 4

• I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, White, People

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• When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

  Josh McDowell

  Directors, Ridiculous, Remember

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• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

  Paul Engle

  Illinois, Yale, Library

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• I loved working on 'Happy Gilmore' because I love to travel to new places and we got to go to British Columbia. Any Adam Sandler film is fun to work on because it is a reunion of the boys club of guys that have worked together in the past.

  Kevin Nealon

  Fun, Boys, Past

  "Paul Mann: Master Comedian Kevin Nealon Talks About His Career, Tour". Interview with L. Paul Mann, www.noozhawk.com. January 13, 2012.

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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Vancouver, Grew Up, British

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

  Dave Brubeck

  Believe, Player, Records

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• When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

  Doris Day

  Would Be, Use, Want

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• Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

  Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

  Summer, Winning, College

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• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

  Derrick Jensen

  Home, Talking, Important

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.75, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

  Muriel Bowser

  Soccer, Support, Dollars

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• The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loss, Ears, Hearing Loss

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• It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

  J Harlen Bretz

  Debacles

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• I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Airplane, Records, Band

  "Bruce Springsteen Interviewed by Ed Norton" by Sophia Savage and Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives in a magical land of beauty, grace and unbridled potential.

  Gordon Campbell

  Powerful, Land, Essence

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• In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Slavery, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “Lincoln on Lincoln”, p.127, University Press of Kentucky

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• Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

  Ward Churchill

  Children, School, Talking

  "The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools". Book by Ward Churchill, November 2004.

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• Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.

  William Kittredge

  Horse, Fall, Sleep

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• Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Mother, School, Boys

  "Obama’s College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'" by Wayne Allyn Root, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

  Mark Leiren-Young

  Mean, Together, Mountain

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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• When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

  Ann Coulter

  College, Years, Leader

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• You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms, but we shouldn't deny that both of them can have an impact, and that's why we're talking about this broadly.

  Christy Clark

  Impact, Talking, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia if our attitude is well, "no," or all of our processes are just going to be a way of making sure you can't get to "yes." They'll just go somewhere else. Those jobs will be somewhere else.

  Christy Clark

  Jobs, Attitude, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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