Hometown Quotes - Page 7

• Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

  Celestino Caballero

  Fighting, Fans, Crowds

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.

  Mike Pence

  Opportunity, Guy, President

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Supportive

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• In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

  Jenson Button

  Flyers, Pubs, Avenues

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• I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  People, Black, Detroit

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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• That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Important, Detroit, Arbors

  "Mayer Hawthorne: Soul Singer Does Michigan Proud" by Kelly Frazier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Two, Parent

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• Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

  Guy Lafleur

  Careers, Cups, Moments

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• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Ohio, Design

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• When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, California, Philadelphia

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• The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.

  Claudia Gray

  Couple, Years, People

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• For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Boston, Fans

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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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• Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

  Martin Filler

  Art, School, Design

  "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

  Marv Albert

  New York, Mirrors, Should Have

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• I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

  Edward Norton

  Years, Arrows, Envy

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

  David Berg

  Cities, People, Heaven

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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Insulting

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• The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.

  Christopher Bailey

  Fashion, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't take a break from making music, but I took some time away from the "need to sell it" thing, and moved to my hometown, Umeå. I took my time there, exploring music on my own, on a very personal level.

  Tove Styrke

  Needs, Levels, Break

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Definitions, Argument

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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