Baltimore Quotes - Page 5

• Michelle [ Pfeiffer] was perfect as Miss Baltimore Crabs.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Perfect, Missing, Crabs

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Cities, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.

  Al Sharpton

  Country, Eight, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Broken, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Self, Views

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• I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Assessment, Cities, Church

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• I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on home ground, and finally we hit upon Hawaii, because of the liberal atmosphere created by its racial admixture, and because of its relatively large population of Buddhists, who are largely nontheistic.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Buddhist, Home, Fighting

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• I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.

  Michelle Rhee

  Writing, School, Kids

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Every action I take, I will ask myself - does this make better for younger Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Ferguson, who have really, in every way, folks, the same right to live out their dreams as any other child in America?

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Children, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

  Mahershala Ali

  Thinking, Epidemics, Color

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago.

  Donald Trump

  Night, Chicago, Different

  Source: www.economist.com

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• [Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Negative

  Source: townhall.com

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• At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Play, Track, Houston

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.

  Ralph Stanley

  Fans, Crowds, Alexandria

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, July, Hot

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Magazines, Photographer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

  Gregory Kane

  Impact, Law, Criminals

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• The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

  Gregory Kane

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Done

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• I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.

  Sheldon Candis

  Tears, Want, Individual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

  Eric Davis

  Cities, Careers, Lowest Point

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

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• When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

  John Moody

  Ohio, Rivers, Water

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

  John Moody

  Ohio, Reorganization, Railroads

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

  Blaze Starr

  Girl, Mother, Religious

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• What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Stronger, Needs

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• I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.

  Joe Flacco

  Years, Special, Olympics

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