Kansas City Quotes - Page 2

• Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Cities, Kansas, Up To Date

  "Kansas City" (song) (1943)

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• I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

  Moshe Safdie

  Thinking, Essence, Cities

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• With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

  David Cook

  Games, Cities, Needs

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• Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

  Hayley Atwell

  Summer, Dad, Cities

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

  Lou Piniella

  Baseball, Kansas, Yankees

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• The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Player, Rocks, Cities

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• I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

  Bert Blyleven

  Cities, Royal, Stadiums

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• A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

  Tom Piazza

  Book, Cities, Mind

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Country, Cities, Band

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Cities

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• Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Book, Cities, Achievement

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• In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

  Jane Fonda

  Night, Kansas, Cities

  "Jane Fonda spit on by Vietnam vet". www.wnd.com. April 20, 2005.

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• I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Cities, Parent

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

  Paul Westhead

  Basketball, Sports, Writing

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• Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Business, Loss

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Cities, Chicago

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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Dad, Aunt, Virginia

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• August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Travel, Kings

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• All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Cat, Cities, Wyoming

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

  James Green

  Airports, Cities, Southern

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• Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

  Casey Stengel

  Yankees, Cities, Nobody Knows

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• I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 7, 2004.

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• We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

  Russell Wilson

  Player, Cities, Nfl

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• Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Football, Team, Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."

  Kevin Sessums

  Dog, Cities, Ass

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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