New Jersey Quotes - Page 3

• My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

  Junot Diaz

  Mother, Father, Care

  "Junot Díaz's Pro-Woman Agenda" by Virginia Vitzthum, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

  Junot Diaz

  Fiction, World, Today

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• I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

  Junot Diaz

  Powerful, Home, Leaving

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

  Junot Diaz

  African American, Alive, Jersey

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

  Chris Christie

  Squares, Government, America

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• I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Party, Believe

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• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  Chris Christie

  Pain, Taken, Hands

  "Christie: Both sides playing politics, don't paint all Muslims as 'radical'". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  New York, Illinois, California

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the "Housewives." I am a huge fan of "New Jersey."

  NeNe Leakes

  Reality, Fans, Watches

  "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Jersey, Sometimes

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

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• Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

  Joan Bauer

  Mom, Husband, Men

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.17, Penguin

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• his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Night, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.188, Penguin UK

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• The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

  Janet Evanovich

  Toxic Waste, Challenges, Way

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

  Cassandra Clare

  Waiting, Toxic, Jersey

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

  James Thurber

  Names, Towns, Jersey

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.190, Library of America

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• I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Cities, Emigration

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

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• I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

  Kevin Smith

  Devil, Fans, Borders

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• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Jill Scott

  Senior, Teacher, Art

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• The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Errors, Jersey

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• I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

  John Forbes Nash

  Eight, Months, Jersey

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• As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Ladders, Jersey

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• The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president is to get the people in the room and to bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country's and the state's greater interests ahead of their own personal interests.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, America

  "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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