County Quotes - Page 12

• There's nothing worse than people who are confused when deciding about something, so hopefully we can clear up any questions folks have. I know a lot of people are confused as to what the options are for White County so if nothing else, we will try to explain the scenario.

  Steve Burton

  Confused, White, Confusion

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• They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.

  Kenny Johnson

  Moving, People, Cooking

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• Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

  Thomas Browne

  Bees, Three, Vagabonds

  Sir Thomas Browne (1968). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence”

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• The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Clubs, Infinite

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• As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

  Bill Cosby

  Cutting, Cities, America

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

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• The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

  Ian Botham

  Play, Cricket, Bigs

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• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

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• Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Father, Grandparent

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• It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Nice, Often Is, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Sevier County is a great area.

  Dolly Parton

  Areas

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• I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

  Gwen Stefani

  Girl, Orange, Loving Family

  "Q & A With Gwen Stefani of No Doubt". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 2000.

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• I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

  Liberace

  Years, Relief, Born

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• I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Strong, Thinking, Church

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

  Francis Galton

  Lakes, Views, Average

  Natural Inheritance The Charms of Statistics (p. 62)

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• Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Different, Three, Honest

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.

  Lissie

  Mom, Iowa, Bridges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

  Britta Phillips

  School, Brooklyn, Bucks

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.

  Aaron Peirsol

  Beach, California, Numbers

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

  Jeff Sessions

  Pockets, Alabama, Republican

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• Although he's [Tim Kaine] not popular here. You know, this is Loudoun County. Loudoun County's a big deal.

  Donald Trump

  Bigs, Deals, Knows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, Lying, Virginia

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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