East Coast Quotes - Page 2

• I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Artist, Thinking, Special People

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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  America, People, East

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• There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

  Martha MacIsaac

  East, Canada, Towns

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• When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

  Mindy Kaling

  Ideas, Two, Profound

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

  Kristi Noem

  Real, Law, Degrees

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• In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.

  Robert Burchfield

  Mother, Country, America

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• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  Bill Burr

  Country, East, Chance

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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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, Boston, East

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• I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Sorry, Dad, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, East, Kind

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• If you're from Philly and you're listening to this, please know that the rest of the world looks at Philly and they're jealous of your food. I promise. And if you're not from Philly, and you've never been here and you're thinking about coming somewhere to the East Coast, come to Philly and eat the food because the food. Is. Amazing.

  Duff Goldman

  Jealous, Thinking, Listening

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.

  James G. Frazer

  Philosophy, Men, Sight

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

  Michael Vick

  Moving, Pockets, East

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• The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Chicago, East, West Coast

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• Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Rap, People

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• I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made.

  Hope Solo

  Beautiful, Home, Play

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.

  Maria Semple

  Girl, Fashion, Kids

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• I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Easter, Italian, Thinking

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• Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

  Edward Abbey

  School, Ivy, League

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Book, East

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
  Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
  Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
  Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
  On the microphone:
  I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  Tara Reid

  Girl, East, Coast

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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