New Jersey Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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• A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Doctors, Years

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• Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

  James Lecesne

  Growing Up, Catholic, Important

  "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  Ocean, Sides, Jersey

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1044, ShandonPress

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.

  Meg Cabot

  Drug, Black, Brooklyn

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

  Jon Stewart

  Kings, Atlanta, Different

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• I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.

  Cassandra Clare

  Toxic, Jersey, Born

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.733, Simon and Schuster

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• After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

  Matthew Quick

  Powerful, Silly, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Riding, Jersey, Horseback

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• Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

  Paul Rudnick

  Wife, Jersey, Shots

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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• Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Heaven, Looks, Jersey

  "Jon Bon Jovi Takes to Facebook to Assure Fans He Is Still Alive", www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

  Neal Shusterman

  Travel, Exit, Jersey

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• Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Country, Home, My Boyfriend

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• I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

  Treat Williams

  Jersey, Instruction, Partners

  "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.

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• You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

  David Keirsey

  New York, Thinking, Light

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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