Wisconsin Quotes - Page 2

• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Jobs, Firsts, Academic

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• Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  Pat Buchanan

  Wisconsin Weather, Persons, Senators

  "Feingold Flirts With Anti-War Platform". www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2005.

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• There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Comforting, Midwest, Middle

  "Actors Whitford, Kaczmarek: Cheeseheads united", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

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• In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Two, Chemistry, Professors

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• The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

  Scott McCallum

  Moving, Important, Doe

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• In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

  Gaylord Nelson

  Teacher, School, Giving

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

  Scott Walker

  Impact, Play, Roles

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• The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

  Jim Doyle

  Strong, Kids, Successful

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• It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

  Alan Cumming

  Gay, Boys, Thinking

  "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Judging, Congress

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• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Trying, Littles

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• From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

  Ron Kind

  Cells, People, Important

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• Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

  Dennis Miller

  Lying, Cheesy, Washington Dc

  "America's Cheesiest Ex-Cop". Interview with Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

  John Ashbery

  Travel, Mad, Jack O Lanterns

  "Puff Piece". www.newyorker.com. July 12, 2010.

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• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  Donna Shalala

  Taken, School, Skills

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

  Scott Walker

  Country, Jobs, Unemployment

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• There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

  Scott Walker

  Illinois, Starks, Contrast

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• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Girl, Baby, Grandmother

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

  Robert Plant

  May, Compromise, Wells

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• When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Real, Dark, Winter

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

  Dan Maskell

  Interesting, Tennis, Pairs

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• Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

  Jim Doyle

  Kids, Failing, Wisconsin Weather

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