Boston Quotes - Page 9

• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Giving

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  East, Lace, Brahmins

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Circles, Boards, Economic

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Berries, Zeppelins

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Determination, Hard Work

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• I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

  Eliza Dushku

  Stars, School, Political

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Years

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• Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Play, Fans

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• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  Gary Burton

  Player, East, Four

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• It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

  Alex Grey

  School, Museums, Years

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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• I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

  Connie Britton

  Mother, Cutting, Hair

  "Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere Talk NASHVILLE, Doing Their Own Singing, Mastering the Archetypes of Southern Women and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 1, 2012.

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• My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

  Doug Flutie

  Song, Play, Band

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• Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Spring, Winning

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• When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with my roommate... These guys said, 'We're going to this club. Just don't go in the washroom.' It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in!

  Stana Katic

  New York, Ideas, Cbgb

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• I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

  Elinor Lipman

  Jobs, Writing, Television

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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  Indra Nooyi

  America, Yale, Years

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• I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

  Kenny Wormald

  Opinionated, Hard

  "Kenny Wormald Interview Footloose". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2011.

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• 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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