Massachusetts Quotes - Page 4

• The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

  Tom Wolfe

  Two, Three, Asking

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• Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

  Rob Zombie

  Witch Trials, Average, Analyzing

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

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• Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

  Ben Affleck

  Funny, New Year, Gay

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• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

  Deval Patrick

  Two, Years, Next

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• Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

  Dan Quayle

  Want, Rubber, Lasts

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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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• 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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• The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.

  Joe Conason

  Mother, New York, Divorce

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Advice, Might

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• 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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• Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

  Leon Edel

  Men, Ideas, Creative

  Leon Edel (1970). “Henry D. Thoreau”

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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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• I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

  Allen West

  Thinking, Work Out, Needs

  "Rep. West fired up over government overregulation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2012.

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ohio, California, Youth

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• I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Born, Thirteen

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• I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  Camille Paglia

  Strong, New York, Military

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• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Land, Community, Special

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• When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

  Paul Cellucci

  Islands, England, Gas

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• And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Jobs, Children

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• Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, New Job, Incentives

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• I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Careers, Differences

  New Hampshire Republican presidential debate sponsored by Meet the Press and Facebook, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2011.

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