Long Island Quotes - Page 2

• I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

  Don Maloney

  Hockey, Islands, Nhl

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• Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet but he’s mine. If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Moving, Islands

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a lot to do in Long Island..." but you know what, if Jim Gaffigan was here, tickets would be gone a month ago, if Chelsea Handler was at the Barclays Center, gone.

  Jay Mohr

  Islands, Long, People

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Teacher, New York, School

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• Boxing on Long Island - there is history there. It's been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know, we are in kind of a resurgence now. We are putting our show there constantly - Star Boxing shows at the Paramount have drawn big crowds over the years and there is a lot of up and coming talent there now. You see more and more gyms with competitive professional fighters.

  Chris Algieri

  Stars, Islands, Years

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.

  Laura Harrington

  New York, Believe, Islands

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Couple, Islands, Long

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• [Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Islands, Long, Manhattan

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

  Suzanne Vega

  Islands, Long, Tests

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• It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.

  David Krumholtz

  New York, Islands, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.

  Howard Gordon

  Teacher, Islands, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Islands, Long

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• I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.

  Melanie Martinez

  Memories, Thinking, Islands

  "Interview: “Dollhouse” singer Melanie Martinez plays nice with GroundSounds". Interview with Jon Berrien, www.groundsounds.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

  Winnie Holzman

  Girl, Islands, Long

  "‘Roadies’ EP Winnie Holzman on Working with Cameron Crowe, Experiencing Pearl Jam". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2016.

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• I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.

  Zach Condon

  Song, New York, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.

  June Millington

  Summer, Moving, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.

  John Petrucci

  New York, Real, Islands

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.

  Chris Algieri

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Growing Up, Islands, Ideas

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

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• I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Islands, Long

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• Ghost Team approached me. They said, "Hey, it's mid-October, do you want to go shoot a movie on Long Island for three weeks about stupid people chasing ghosts?" I had never done anything like that before. It's kind of a mock-horror movie. What I didn't realize was the whole thing takes place at night, as a horror movie should, and so I didn't realize that we'd be working until 6 in the morning every night, or morning.

  David Krumholtz

  Morning, Team, Stupid

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

  Ricky Jay

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  Yancy Butler

  Islands, Long, Grandfather

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