Jersey Quotes

• The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president is to get the people in the room and to bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country's and the state's greater interests ahead of their own personal interests.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, America

  "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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• New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  New York, Growing Up, Shadow

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• I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

  Kevin Smith

  Devil, Fans, Borders

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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• I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Riding, Horseback, Horseback Riding

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• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  DeForest Soaries

  Voting, Challenges, Attention

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• I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

  Paul Muldoon

  Rap, Here And There, Enjoy

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• I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Surfing, Hawaii, World

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• Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

  Bobby Flay

  Summer, Parent, Corn

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• I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Dresses, Magazines

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• I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

  Stacey Dash

  School, Years, Three

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• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  Steve Garvey

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "There's No I in Team, But Me Plays a Big Role" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Community, Brooklyn, Bigs

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• I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

  Bernie Worrell

  Long, Branches, Taught

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• I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

  John Forbes Nash

  Eight, Months, Argument

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• I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  New York, Illinois, California

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  Chris Christie

  Pain, Taken, Hands

  "Christie: Both sides playing politics, don't paint all Muslims as 'radical'". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Jill Scott

  Senior, Teacher, Art

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• Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philadelphia, Dull, Next

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• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Godfried Danneels

  Ocean, Ice, Cities

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• Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

  Derek Luke

  Dream, Reality, Challenges

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

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• I've never been one for sitting on beaches. Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

  Piper Perabo

  Girl, Beach, New York

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• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

  Issey Miyake

  Underwear, Machines, Fabric

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• God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Winning

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

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