Arkansas Quotes

• I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

  Molly Ivins

  Faith, Believe, Fingers

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• I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Rocks, Years

  Declaration, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

  Mike Huckabee

  Retail, States

  Interview with Tara McKelvey, www.marieclaire.com. June 14, 2007.

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• You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

  Mike Huckabee

  Jesus, Hero, Order

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

  Ken Salazar

  Party, Rivers, Water

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• I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

  Pat Buchanan

  Mean, Thinking, West

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• I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Baby, Newspapers, County

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

  Mike Huckabee

  Dog, West, Republican

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• I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Mom, Thinking, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Issues, People

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• They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

  Mira Nair

  Mean, Cutting, America

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jobs, Community, African American

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• Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

  Mark Pryor

  People, Body

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• Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

  Gary Busey

  Doors, Together, Cooks

  "Gary Busey Is Almost as Crazy as Charlie Sheen". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.

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• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  Alan Cumming

  Gay, Boys, Thinking

  "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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• If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Thinking, Opposites

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.

  Byron York

  Alaska, Kansas, Race

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• Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Country, Illinois, Practice

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Divorce

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• Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.

  Kris Allen

  Nice, Really Nice, Feels

  "Kris Allen reflects on 'Idol' upset win". Interview with Brian Mansfield, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Campaigns, Asking

  "Republican presidential debate" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• We`ll go through the legislative process and I`m make it clear what I support, don`t support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

  Tom Cotton

  Thinking, Support, Process

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

  Charles Portis

  Girl, Horse, Father

  "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

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• I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Grateful, Idols

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