Philadelphia Quotes - Page 3

• I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

  Rob McElhenney

  Dark, World, Want

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• [On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Party, Gay, Men

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• You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

  Phil Collins

  Regret, Son

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• Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

  Jill Scott

  Minutes, Moved

  "Traveling with the Stars: Jill Scott". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Dull, Next, Jersey

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• It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

  Jim Leyland

  Winter, Lasts, Well Known

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• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.

  James Madison

  Fall, Independent, Men

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• I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

  Eric Weiner

  Men, Want Something, Pieces

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

  Cory Lidle

  Dog, Mistake, Good Friend

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• All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, War, Eye

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• Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

  Judith Viorst

  Love You, Being In Love, Love Is

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Atheism, Lectures

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• I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Real, Cities, Trying

  "How I Write: Lisa Scottoline & Daughter Francesca Serritella". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. November 14, 2012.

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• But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

  Jemima Kirke

  Art, Real, Able

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

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• Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Beach, New York

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Sports, Opportunity

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 23, 2007.

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• I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.

  John Landis

  New York, Winter, Thinking

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• Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Art, Fighting, Museums

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• Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.

  David Letterman

  Eagles, Nfl, White

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• I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

  Daryl Hall

  Black, Towns, Grew

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Writing, Character, Support

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• The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

  John Jay Hooker

  Men, Intelligent, People

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• I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

  Sherman Hemsley

  Proud

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• Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

  Jose Garces

  New York, Inspire, Chicago

  "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Writing, Adults

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