Carolina Quotes - Page 5

• As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

  Michael Emerson

  Gun, May, North Carolina

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• This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the NAFTA deal and then China's entry into the World Trade Organization, another Bill[Clinton] and Hillary[Clinton] backed disaster, have sent those jobs to other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Organization

  Source: time.com

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• I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

  Kwame Dawes

  Believe, Ghana, Jamaica

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Parent, North Carolina

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• I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

  Kay Hagan

  Believe, Important, North Carolina

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.

  Kay Hagan

  Strong, Children, Hard Work

  "Kay Hagan DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.

  Armistead Maupin

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

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• Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

  Curtis Joseph

  Loyalty, Hurt, Games

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• I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

  Ken Jeong

  Wrestling, North Carolina, Grew Up

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• When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

  Josh Mandel

  Marine, Islands, Paris

  "Glenn interviews Marco Rubio and Josh Mandel". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. November 2, 2012.

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• It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

  Kurt Busch

  Thinking, North Carolina, Driving

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• I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

  James Taylor

  Growing Up, Thinking, Soul

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 17, 2013.

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• One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, South Carolina, Favorite Places

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• North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.

  Bill Maher

  Uncles, Crazy, Law

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• The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

  Chris Paul

  New Orleans, People, North Carolina

  "Chris Paul Looks Good in a Suit (and Not Just for an NBA All-Star)". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Yellow, Orange, Bird

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  David W. Blight

  Memorial Day, Song, Monday

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• I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, South Carolina, Needs

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• The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.

  Kwame Dawes

  Memories, Collective Memory, Suffering

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

  Mike Easley

  Two, Priorities, North Carolina

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

  Mike Easley

  Country, School, College

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Car, Politics, Bans

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• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.

  Nikki Haley

  Encouragement, Agency, Special

  "This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. JUly 12, 2012.

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