Georgia Quotes - Page 9

• If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

  Barney Frank

  Morning, Hate, Fire

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• I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

  Kim Basinger

  Jobs, New York, Blessed

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.

  Chris Lowell

  People, Actors, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Song, Jesus, Believe

  Buddy Wakefield (2007). “Live for a Living”, p.103, Write Bloody Publishing

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• All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

  Jimmy Carter

  School, Kids, Archery

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. December 10, 2004.

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• You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Mind, Might

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• Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

  Chris Tucker

  Opportunity, Acting, Comedy

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• I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

  Scotty McCreery

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Scotty McCreery on ‘See You Tonight,’ Brad Paisley and country lyrics". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

  Craig Ferguson

  Adorable, Campaigns, Remember

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Grandfather

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.

  Fetty Wap

  Mom, Brother, Father

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Atlanta, Two

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• Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Cutting, Yankees

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.

  Bill Goldberg

  Eye, Domes, Movement

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Ivy

  Source: newwest.net

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• The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

  Alton Brown

  School, Doors, Video

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Nice, Pie

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mother, Father, Math

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• Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Growing Up, Kids

  Tom Keegan, Ernie Harwell (2002). “Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball”, Triumph Books (IL)

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• I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Looks

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Georgia O Keeffe, World

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• After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

  Sarah Palin

  Army, Russia, Ukraine

  “Palin on Ukraine: I called it” by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

  Pat Dye

  Alabama, Beats, Know How

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• Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.

  Byron York

  Alaska, Kansas, Race

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