Boston Quotes - Page 10

• I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

  Kenny Wormald

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

  Wes Welker

  Sports, Home, Growing

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• Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Practice, Hypocrisy, Grace

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...”, Harcourt

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• The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

  Brad Falchuk

  Moving, Quality, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Black Francis

  Song, Age, Remember

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

  Bill Walton

  Cheer, Team, Shoes

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Years, Adults

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• The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Blue, Drunk, Ugly

  "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2009.

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• A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, School, Simple

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• I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.

  Billy Graham

  College, Years, President

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• Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

  Billy Herman

  Winter, August, Two

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

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• Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.

  Grant Hill

  Sports, Memories, Garden

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• I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Men, Circles

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.16

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• Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

  Howard Zinn

  Would Be, Massachusetts, Way

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.427, Seven Stories Press

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• Boston is a state of mind.

  Thomas Gold Appleton

  Mind, States, State Of Mind

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• The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

  Andrew Natsios

  Country, Water, Political

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• From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Eight, Land, Feet

  Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.

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• I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Team, Thinking

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'

  Husain Haqqani

  New York, Teaching, Home

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• If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

  Kevin Starr

  Santa, Six, States

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• Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  War, Hard Work, Dark

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• Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Buddhism, San Francisco

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• From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Atheist, People, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, New York, Athlete

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