Jersey Quotes - Page 3

• I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Years, Trying

  "Showbiz Today Star of Tomorrow Piper Perabo". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

  Treat Williams

  Instruction, Partners, Helicopters

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

  Wiz Khalifa

  New York, East, Pittsburgh

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

  Kevin Durant

  Thinking, Nba, Looks

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

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• My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

  Anne Hathaway

  Beautiful, New York, Growing Up

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• School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

  Richard Codey

  Children, School, Healthy Habits

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• The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Errors, Study

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• I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Teacher, New York, School

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• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  Taylor Swift

  Cute, Summer, Thinking

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.

  Tony Parker

  New York, Thinking, Two

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• If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.

  Tony Parker

  Duncan, Knicks, Ifs

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• The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

  Steve Nash

  School, Lakers, Would Be

  "Steve Nash 'open to everything'" by Mike Mazzeo, www.espn.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, London Olympics, Yesterday

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• I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Cat, Nba

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• I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.

  Paul Auster

  War, Fighting, Boys

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Strong, Dad, Party

  Source: gawker.com

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• I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

  Ryan McGinley

  Catholic, Lines, Middle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

  Andre Benjamin

  Football, Looks, Sleeves

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• You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

  Chick Corea

  Queens, Creativity, School

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• Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

  Jeff Smith

  Memories, Food, Order

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• Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

  Paul Rudnick

  Wife, Shots, Bigfoot

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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