Hometown Quotes - Page 5

• My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, Reading, Independent

  "We heart YA" blog Interview, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

  Denis Leary

  Cousin, Couple, Fire

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, America, People

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• I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Team, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

  Van Jones

  Color, Years, Rights

  "Wartimes: Reports From The Opposition". Studio album by Van Jones and Mumia Abu-Jamal, www.powerlineblog.com. 2003.

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• I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

  Clay Aiken

  Honesty, What Matters, Who I Am

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

  Kenny Wallace

  Age, Fascination, Young

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.

  Dennis Miller

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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• There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

  Richard Hell

  Loss, Kentucky, Cities

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  Gary Kovacs

  Oil, Calgary, Gas

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• I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

  Taylor Swift

  Dvds, Stuff, Hours

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• It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

  Jason Aldean

  Nice, Support You, Feel Good

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• When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

  Donald Trump

  Gun, People, Chicago

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.

  Marianne Faithfull

  School, Important, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

  Deshaun Watson

  Play, Nfl, Atlanta

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Suffering, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

  Carrie Underwood

  Blessed, Giving, Supportive

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• If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'

  Kristin Armstrong

  Girl, Believe, Mean

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• I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.

  Robert Redford

  Home, Orange, Space

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• I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  School, San Diego, London

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.

  Zachary Quinto

  College, Years, Normal

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Office, Months

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• There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

  Steven Knight

  People, Proud, Fashionable

  Source: collider.com

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• It is very unusual for someone from Latin American society to openly stand by his homosexuality. In my hometown, there are still lots of prejudices against gays. We are often not considered to be fully-fledged people. The family is sacred there; having children means more than anything else.

  Orlando Cruz

  Children, Latin, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was 18 years old, I came to Tokyo from my hometown, Ise, in the countryside. I'd always been really inspired by fashion and music, especially when punk came out in '76 or '77.

  Hiroshi Fujiwara

  Fashion, Inspired, Punk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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