Philadelphia Quotes - Page 4

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

Nellie Fox

Hurt, White, Office

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It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

Al Franken

Pudding, Hey, Causes

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That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't have made all the saves that Parent made against us.

Jerry Korab

Sports, Parent, Bumper Sticker

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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

Nancy Meyers

Struggle, Trying, Pay

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

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I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

John Gutfreund

New York, People, Different

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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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I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Shane Carruth

Hard Times, Tv Shows, Sitting Down

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In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today."

Sylvester Stallone

Real, Rocks, Great Restaurants

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

Anne Sexton

Happiness, Baby, Morning

Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

Cleveland Amory

New York, Men, Boston

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The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

Russell Lynes

Art, Cutting, Islands

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On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

Fred Shero

Sports, People, Coaching

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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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The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

Bill Belichick

Cheer, Anthem, I Can

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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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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 wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

Daryl Hall

People, Soul, Different

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I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.

Tom Wolf

Children, Needs, Care

FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014

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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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I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Sherman Hemsley

Proud

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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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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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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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