Minnesota Quotes

• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  Jesse Ventura

  Power, Locked Up, Ifs

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• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  Jim Ramstad

  Compassion, People, Relief

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Matter

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• In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Safety, Drug

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• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Feelings, Doe, Band

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

  Loni Anderson

  Teacher, Degrees, Minutes

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

  Jessica Lange

  Growing Up, Doors, Felt

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Years, Enzymes, Evening

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• American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Pockets, Rising

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, School, Made

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• I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Lakes, Swamps

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• When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

  Mary MacLane

  Taken, Years, Vapid

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• I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Home, Cat, Two

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• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Judy Davis

  Father, Pride, Gay

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• I grew up in Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

  Grew Up, Grew

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• I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

  Sean William Scott

  Kindness, Nice, Shopping

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• I love everything Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

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• When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

  Jesse Ventura

  Raised, Ran, Governors

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• In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms.

  Bruce Lansky

  Night, Two, Cold

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• I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

  Chris Cornell

  Life, California, Feelings

  "Song: Outshined (Badmotorfinger)". December 1991.

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• I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

  Al Franken

  Nice, Fighting, Rights

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• Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

  Diablo Cody

  Clothes, Knows

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.11, Penguin

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• I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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