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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• My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

  Mark Messier

  Hard Work, People, Ceilings

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• Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Islands, Lunch, Manhattan

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Triumph, Arms

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• And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Games, Training

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• Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

  Jason Alexander

  New York, Way, West

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

  Charles Edison

  Office, Foundation, Purpose

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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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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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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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• I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

  John Woolman

  Years, West, Born

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.51, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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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 have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

  Abraham Clark

  Aggravation, Attention, Purpose

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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 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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• 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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• 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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