Towns Quotes - Page 5

• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

  Paul Engle

  Illinois, Yale, Library

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• We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

  Arthur Erickson

  Appreciate, Medieval, Building

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Kids, Suits

  "Craig Ferguson took 'The Late Late Show' to Scotland (even though he used to get beat up there)". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. May 14, 2012.

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Senior, Drug, Benefits

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• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  Jodie Foster

  School, Kids, Avid

  "Jodie Foster On “The Beaver” and Making Personal Films". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2011.

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• My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

  Morgan Freeman

  Parent, Memphis, Firsts

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Competition, Dollars

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• I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

  William Gibson

  Summer, Baby, Beach

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Magic Kingdom, White

  "Gingrich on Obama's Disney Speech: Which Cabinet Post Will Goofy Get?". Newt Gingrich's speech to a crowd of about 500 people in the theater at Magnolia Hall, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Drinking, Government, Political

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• On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

  Alison Gopnik

  Cities, Visitors, Small Town

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• It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

  Ryan Gosling

  Real, Play, Years

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• I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

  Ellie Goulding

  Country, Voice, Gigs

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

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• When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

  Larry Hagman

  Home, Cities, Dallas

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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• My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

  Anne Hathaway

  Beautiful, New York, Growing Up

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• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  Salma Hayek

  Listening, Mexico, Records

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

  Hunter Hayes

  Italian, Cities, Two

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• In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

  Thierry Henry

  Monday, New York, Moving

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• Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

  Faith Hill

  Graduation, Football, Children

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• Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

  Alice Hoffman

  School, People, Community

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• Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Luck, Noses

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• Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

  Jesse Jackson

  The End Of The Day, Sides, Ends

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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