Massachusetts Quotes - Page 3

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Burton Richter

Technology, Years, Interesting

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And some sad news... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.

Jay Leno

Couple, News, Splits

"The Tonight Show", July 24, 2006.

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On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

Henry David Thoreau

Lakes, August, Mountain

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.1

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Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

Deval Patrick

Jobs, Fixed, Fine

"Deval Patrick DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.

Newt Gingrich

Years, Political, Culture

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There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

Rick Perry

Jobs, Sitting, Records

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My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

Julia Child

Mother, Independent, Firsts

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.

Deval Patrick

Moving, People, Competition

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If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Ed Schultz

Dumb, Trying, Vote

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Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.

Christopher Anderson

Technology, Effort, Community

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To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

H. P. Lovecraft

Lonely, Mystery, Hills

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (9 October 1931), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 423), 1971.

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Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

Stephanie Cutter

Country, Jobs, Fall

"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

Mitt Romney

Assault Weapons, Weapons, Assault

"Mitt Romney,the gun-control candidate" by Alex Coppelman, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2012.

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Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

Howard Zinn

Boston, Would Be, Way

Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.427, Seven Stories Press

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Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

Ann Coulter

Victory, Rolling, Drink

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There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

L. Neil Smith

Ambitious, Selfless, Noble

"Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

Basketball, May, Indiana

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My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

John Knowles

Mother, Dad, Father

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With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for the debates. That's kind of a stretch; a rich white guy from Massachusetts playing a rich white guy from Massachusetts.

Jay Leno

Play, White, Guy

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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

William Standish Knowles

June, Grew Up, Born

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The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

Marty Meehan

Two, Needs, Pumps

"Hardball" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 25, 2006.

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There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

Jay Leno

Names, America, Enemy

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It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

Mitt Romney

Country, Gratitude, War

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I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.

Chris Pine

Summer, Jobs, New York

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Julia Ward Howe

Conventions, Old Time

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