Cleveland Quotes - Page 3

• I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

  Stan Coveleski

  People, Towns, Knows

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• I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?

  Monica Potter

  Thinking, Years, Waiting

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• Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Years, Organization, Symphony

  Leonard Slatkin (2017). “Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry”, p.200, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, New York, Airplane

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• God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

  John Ortberg

  God, Jobs, Vacation

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and Todd run the northern plant in Cleveland, and I've got the southern plant down here in Dayton. No tours permitted.

  Robert Pollard

  Running, Writing, Rocks

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• I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

  Aretha Franklin

  House, Singing, Sound

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• I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

  Albert Belle

  Years, Cities, Boat

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, ECW Press

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• We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Two, Profound

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.226, Vintage

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• There were a lot of times in the Cleveland and Chicago organizations when I did something, they wanted to make sure the camera was there. I really didn't want that. This isn't something my parents told me to do. Or something my family told me to do. Or do things for publicity. I do this on my own. I do this from my heart.

  Albert Belle

  Heart, Organization, Parent

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• One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

  Zell Miller

  Football, Running, Team

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• I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.

  The Miz

  Rain, Littles, Thunderstorm

  "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

  Drew Carey

  Two, Guy, Three

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

  Albert Belle

  Writing, Media, Chicago

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• When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.

  Wes Craven

  Real, War, Father

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Johnny Walker, the American that fought for the Taliban, is now talking with an Arabic accent. Have you heard him? It's ridiculous. I know how we should handle him. Let's bring him back here and take him to Cleveland Browns stadium and dress him up as a referee. They'll know how to take care of him!

  Jay Leno

  Talking, Care, Dresses

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• The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

  Ted Williams

  Jobs, House, Full Time Jobs

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• Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

  Marc Edwards

  Soul, Adults, Grew Up

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• I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Daughter, Boys, Years

  Source: imfromcleveland.com

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• I got to play with some of the best players in the game, from Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore in Cleveland, to here with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels. Obviously, to Seattle with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez, and then to Texas with Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young. It was a great experience. Without being traded I never could have gotten to do any of that.?

  Cliff Lee

  Player, Games, Texas

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• The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

  Drew Carey

  Soccer, Hate, Team

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• Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

  Tracy Chapman

  Mother, Growing Up, Singing

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• I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

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• What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

  William McKinley

  Country, Two, Office

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• The director of the [Grimm] pilot called me in. I had worked on a pilot called Love Bites with him, and the producers I worked on with on Hot In Cleveland, so they knew me from comedic worlds, and they wanted someone who could be light too. Because it is pretty heavy.

  David Giuntoli

  Light, World, Pilots

  Source: collider.com

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