Cleveland Quotes

• Cleveland fans are awesome.

  LeBron James

  Fans, Social Media

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• America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

  Tennessee Williams

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Lying, Faces, Saws

  "Will Progressive Field renovations shrink Cleveland Indians' 2015 payroll? Hey, Hoynsie!" by Paul Hoynes, www.cleveland.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

  Drew Carey

  People, Normalcy

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

  Randy Newman

  Light, Cities, Magic

  Song: Burn On, Album: Sail Away

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• This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.

  Colin Mochrie

  Beverly Hills, Hills, Cleveland Browns

  "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2007.

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• At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

  Tim Conway

  Horse, Fall, Jockeys

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.

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• The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

  Terrence Howard

  Differences, Taste, Casual

  "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 5, 2005.

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• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Ohio, Years

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• I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

  Art Modell

  Years, Baltimore, Enjoyed

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• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, People, Unions

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• I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

  Drew Carey

  Jeopardy

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• A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

  Tracy Chapman

  School, Kids, Way

  "The quiet revolutionary". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  George Andrew Olah

  Summer, Responsibility, Academic Life

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• It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Nice, Black

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Fire, Campaigns

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• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  Betty White

  Retirement, Blessed, Thinking

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler

  Patrick Dempsey

  Jobs, Kids, Weekend

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• I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

  James Cromwell

  Theatre, London, Birth

  "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: John and James Cromwell of A .45 at 50th". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2010.

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

  Fred Willard

  Hometown, Rich

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Years, Cities

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