Nebraska Quotes - Page 2

• It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

  George W. Bush

  Block, Humor, Men

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• Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

  Lizz Winstead

  Earth, Hell, Proof

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.66, Penguin

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• I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Horse, Dad, School

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.

  Jonathan Franzen

  New York, Class, Cities

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Wyoming, Insanity, Lap

  Song: Nebraska, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Men

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

  Simon Winchester

  Kansas, Australia, Emergencies

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• One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Trying

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Dream, Kids, Games

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

  Gabrielle Union

  Fun, Usa, Agriculture

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

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• I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

  Ken Wilber

  Track, Creative, Duke University

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• Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Night, Kansas

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". www-s4.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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• Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

  Dave Heineman

  Harvest Time, Important, Fuel

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• You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Jobs, Mean

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• Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Hands, Pockets

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• If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

  Ann Patchett

  Love You, Winning, Two

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.1170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

  Andrew Rannells

  Shakes, Stills

  "QA: The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. June 9, 2011.

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• One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

  Edward Abbey

  Byzantium, Oklahoma, One Day

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.

  Jason Peter

  Love Is, Years, People

  Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

  Robert Reed

  Jobs, Fiction, Eccentric

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• After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

  Evan Williams

  School, College, Years

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• Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Race, People

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Office, Hanging On

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