Pittsburgh Quotes - Page 4

• If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Technology, Steel

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Couple, Years, Trying

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Ties, Black, Gold

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Ive been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. Im not a Wall Street lawyer, Im a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh.

  Keith Rothfus

  Wall, Years, Tourists

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• My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

  Jim Leyland

  Baseball, Successful, Thinking

  "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

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• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Joy, Super Bowl

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• Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

  Dave Parker

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Travel, New York, Home

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• In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Bed, Rooms

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• My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

  Jason Kilar

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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• Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.

  Herbert Simon

  Fire, Average, Land

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• We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

  Edgar Wright

  Imagine, Outbreaks, Happenings

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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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, Philadelphia, Hopeful

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

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• I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Numbers, America

  CNBC Undercard GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.

  Matt Cullen

  Christian, Team, Games

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.

  Sidney Crosby

  Hockey, Cities, Want

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• Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

  Johnny Carson

  Kind, Advantage, Newark

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• I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

  Jamie Farr

  Book, People, Cleveland

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• If the veins in the back of your legs look like the street map of greater Pittsburgh, you ain't nobody's babydoll.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Looks, Veins, Maps

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Art, Moving, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.

  Curtis Hanson

  Heart, Past, Steel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.

  Curtis Hanson

  Cities, Perfect, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.

  Ethan Suplee

  Mother, New York, Father

  "Ethan Suplee on Deepwater Horizon, Mallrats, and not knowing if he's in the new Twin Peaks". Interview with Randall Colburn, film.avclub.com. September 29, 2016.

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