Philadelphia Quotes - Page 5

• 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 don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.

  Aubrey Plaza

  New York, Uncles, Grandparent

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Humanity

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.

  Josh Fox

  Taken, Hopeful, Community

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• When I took the job in Philadelphia, we had a chance to hire a personnel guy and I hired Tom [Gamble], really from my relationship in college. When you're in college, you get to see scouts on a daily basis, and the ones you kind of hit it off with. I thought he had a great eye.

  Chip Kelly

  Jobs, Eye, College

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  College, Temples, Harvard

  "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

  Jim Gerlach

  Volunteer, Care, Tradition

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• When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Tree, Projects

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• The passion is my favorite part of the city [Philadelphia]. You go from 'we love you' to 'we hate you' back to 'you walk on water.' You're driving, and somebody might wave or somebody might flip you off.

  Jim Thome

  Hate, Love You, Passion

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• I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

  Mick Cornett

  Cities, Kabul, Rebuilding

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• What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

  Clive James

  Dog, Art, Writing

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• It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

  Danny Garcia

  Long, World, Way

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• I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

  Diana Ross

  New York, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.599, Modern Library

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

  Oliver Evans

  Running, Morning, New York

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• We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

  Steve Shaw

  Past, Agency, Years

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• I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

  Questlove

  War, Class, Elements

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

  Tina Fey

  Virginia, Grew Up, University

  Interview with Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. March 12, 2013.

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• The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."

  Al Gore

  People, Corporations, Firsts

  "Philadelphia Daily News", October 21, 2005.

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• It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

  Will Smith

  Struggle, Voice, Police

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.

  Ilana Mercer

  Hero, Fate, Hard Times

  "Anti-Federalists Prophesied the End of Freedom". www.wnd.com. December 05, 2013.

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• The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

  Angela Merkel

  Liberty, Bells, Berlin

  Angela Merkel's Speech before the US Congress, www.spiegel.de. November 4, 2009.

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