Midwest Quotes - Page 5

• I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"

  Ashley Hinshaw

  Goodbye, Opportunity, Okay

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

  Celeste Ng

  Quality, Underdog, Kind

  "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

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• At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Swings, Wind

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

  Lissie

  Land, Tree, Cheesy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

  Lissie

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

  Paul Rust

  Growing Up, Catholic, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

  David Pajo

  Ohio, Three, Half

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Atheist, People, Catholic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Italian

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Orange, Way, County

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.

  Kellan Lutz

  Cameras, Want, Security

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.

  Mitch Lucker

  Suicide, Silence, Kilts

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• The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

  Eddie Jemison

  Kids, Shallow, Hedonistic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

  Mike Pence

  Looks, Losing, Decline

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

  Derek Walcott

  Stupid, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

  Paul Ryan

  Crush, Jobs, Coal Miners

  "Big Ag Just Got A Big, Wet Kiss From Paul Ryan" by Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Gratitude, Growing Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Pieces

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Children, Growing Up, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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