Illinois Quotes - Page 4

• Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil marriage, introducing not only an unprecedented novelty into our state law, but also institutionalizing an objectively sinful reality.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Reality, Law

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• I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

  George Will

  Chicago, Fans, Conservative

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.

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• I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

  Matt Skiba

  Lakes, Race, Ymca

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.

  Tina Fey

  White, Guy, Juniors

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois.

  Barack Obama

  Guy, Might, States

  "Chicago Straight" by David Bernstein, www.chicagomag.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Alan Keyes: Doing What He Does Best" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. February 20, 2009.

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• Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

  Sayed Kashua

  Writing, Here I Am, Hebrew

  "Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending" by Sayed Kashua and Etgar Keret, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

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• I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

  Jodi Benson

  Princess, Broadway, Film

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

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• My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Growing Up, Southern, Far Away

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I'm also honored to be here with the speaker of the House - just happens to be from the state of Illinois. I'd like to describe the speaker as a trustworthy man. He's the kind of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time in the political process.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Men

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Rhode Island, Islands, Virginia

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

  Frank Church

  Government, Language, States

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• I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Shots, Abolitionist

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• I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

  June Squibb

  Country, Littles, Towns

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• It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

  Tyrone Willingham

  Football, Successful, Loss

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• Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Family, Success

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• I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.

  Nick Offerman

  Character, Watches, Berries

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

  John O'Hara

  People, Hibernation, States

  1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.

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• Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

  Timothy Egan

  Running, Believe, Loss

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• If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Struggle, Medicine

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

  Hugh Hefner

  War, College, Feet

  "Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Mother, Home

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• I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.

  Emo Philips

  Car, Police, Grove

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• A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Texas

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• What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

  Bill Robinson

  People, House, Theatre

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