Boston Quotes - Page 14

• New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

  David Frost

  New York, Mean, Italian

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

  Andre Dubus

  Daughter, Morning, New York

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Couple, Men, Population

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Texas, San Francisco

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• I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.

  James Taylor

  Play, Symphony, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Denny Hamlin from Sep 08, 2015

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• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Musical, Theatre, Theater

  "Comic-Con: AMERICAN DAD’s Rachael MacFarlane Talks Up the New Season; Reveals Her Musical Aspirations". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.

  Brian Reade

  War, Believe, School

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• I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

  Eli Roth

  Baseball, School, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd; rather, I was disappointed with the rest before I came. I have no eyes for their churches, and what else they find to brag of. Though I know but little about Boston, yet what attracts me, in a quiet way, seems much meaner and more pretending than there,--libraries, pictures, and faces in the street. You don't know where any respectability inhabits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Eye, Church

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1231, e-artnow

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• A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the man's brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Doctors, Pigs

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

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• I love Boston and I always will. I'll always have terrific memories and great fans here.

  Johnny Damon

  Memories, Fans, Terrific

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• Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

  Matt Hasselbeck

  Senior, Brother, Growing Up

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• I have friends in New York that won't leave New York, and they're really talented people, but they'd rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That's just weird to me, but they get into that I've-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I'm not that way.

  Robert Englund

  New York, Florida, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.

  John Petrucci

  Kids, College, Guitar

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.

  Manny Ramirez

  Brain, Pounds, Feels

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• I'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.

  Daisuke Matsuzaka

  Red, Excited, Members

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• I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

  Judd Nelson

  Senior, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

  Tom Brady

  Long, Jeter, Right Now

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• According to a report for the Boston Globe from the year 2008 to 2014 nearly 13,000 criminal aliens were released back into U.S. communities because their home countries would not, under any circumstances, take them back. Hard to believe with the power we have. Hard to believe.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Home

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

  Jill Stein

  Community, Movement, Care

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

  Gwen Ifill

  Jobs, Children, School

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

  Tod Machover

  Squares, Oasis, Barns

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by this noise and television. It means that's what we are going to get, because we always get everything eventually.

  John Gimlette

  Mean, Different, Three

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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