Atlanta Quotes - Page 5

• I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Apology, Airports, Tsa

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• I'm looking forward to making a Super Bowl run in Atlanta every year.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Running, Years, Looking Forward

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• I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Thinking, Working Together

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Iowa, People

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Agency, Play

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• Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

  Michael Nutter

  New York, Philadelphia, People

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• If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Asking, Bigs

  Lauren Myracle (2011). “Ten”, p.93, Penguin

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• Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.

  Ilona Andrews

  Burning

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes: A Penguin eSpecial from Berkley”, p.76, Penguin

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• Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?" "I said it's nothing major." "Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalypse was imminent and that was the only way to prevent it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Bullshit, Three

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes: A Penguin eSpecial from Berkley”, p.23, Penguin

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Political, Georgia, Constitution

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• ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Night, Enjoy, Reader

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• Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

  Mark Martin

  Spring, Shock Absorber, Different

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• I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

  Justin Bieber

  House, Suitcases, Kind

  "Maclean's Interview: Justin Bieber". Interview with Nicholas Köhler, www.macleans.ca. December 15, 2009.

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• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

  Tayari Jones

  Children, Cities, Leaving

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You niggas ain't in the South.

  Pimp C

  Texas, Doe, East

  "Pimp C Goes Mad On ATL & Various Rappers", uproxx.com. July 24, 2007.

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• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Teacher, School, Years

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

  Jimmy Carter

  Race, Politics, Firsts

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• You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Home, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Texas, Years

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• The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

  Bill Gates

  Military, War, People

  "A Q&A with Bill Gate". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• When I wanted to be professionally known as a rapper I said I wanna take the moniker Gucci Mane. But all the people in my hood, not even my closest friends but everybody in Atlanta, calls me Guwop. I didn't start it. I can't put my finger on how it spread. I know it started from my boys but then everybody who I collaborate picked up on it and they'd say it to me.

  Gucci Mane

  Rapper, Boys, People

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I'm not from the heart of Atlanta, I'm from the Eastern outskirts. Stone Mountain is the town - Gambino is from there, Danger Mouse is from there. So there's a lot more greenery, lakes and a mountain you can climb everyday - all kinds of stuff that I'm into. I wear sandals, or a harness - I'm prepared to be outdoors because that's just how I am.

  Gucci Mane

  Heart, Lakes, Everyday

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• I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

  RuPaul

  Creating, Rocks, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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