New Jersey Quotes - Page 8

• It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

  Richard Schiff

  Jersey, Tough, Stage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in New Jersey in the '80s. That means one thing: Big hair. ... I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show.

  Jancee Dunn

  Dog, Mean, Hair

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, Past, People

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 19, 2011

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Distance, Parent

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• I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.

  Jim Norton

  Boston, Jersey, Cleveland

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• I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.

  Queen Latifah

  Ideas, People, House

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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• The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Health, Eye

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• During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hands, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Writing, Addresses

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• One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

  Joe Jonas

  Italian, California, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Art, People

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• My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

  Anita Diament

  Childhood, Denver, Jersey

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• I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

  Ezra Miller

  Dirty, Naughty, Depth

  Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Spring, Land

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.317, Penguin

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• I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Musical, Jersey

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

  Al Sharpton

  Loss, Media, Black Youth

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• Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

  Jason Alexander

  New York, Way, West

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

  Patrick Carney

  Friday, Tools, Jersey

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• School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

  Richard Codey

  Children, School, Healthy Habits

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• I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

  Joe Dante

  Sports, Father, Golf

  "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

  Charles Edison

  Office, Foundation, Purpose

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