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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my local trade union that projected me my political life. And if I fail, when I go back to my hometown, it's going to take another century for another worker, another member of the working class to reach the presidency, because people are going to say that the workers do not have the competency to run a country.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Running, Country, Home

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• My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

  Tony Dungy

  Basketball, Friday, Teacher

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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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• It's been fun for me to figure out what I am in the world of fashion. I pull more now from my hometown, the aesthetic of the mountains and Arizona and the old western, vintage kind of vibe mixed with a sort of California bohemia.

  Zella Day

  Fashion, Fun, Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So get this. On 9/11, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect first responders, but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.

  Tim Kaine

  Military, Fighting, Men

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2016.

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