Milwaukee Quotes

• Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  Chicago, Pompous

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• Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

  Ray Nitschke

  Special

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• St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

  Bud Selig

  Minneapolis

  "MLB by the Numbers, but Who's Buying?". Sports Business Journal, December 24-30, 2001.

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• I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

  Kristen Johnston

  Born, Raised

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• I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Sides, Grew Up, Alleys

  People Interview, people.com. May 21, 2001.

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• I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

  Bob Uecker

  Men, Brave, Bonus

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• Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

  Dar Williams

  Thinking, Citing, My Favorite

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• To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.

  Hank Aaron

  Player, People, Brave

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• It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Who I Am, Wings

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". Interview with Chris Wallace, spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.

  Bob Uecker

  Two, Clothes, Looks

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• Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.

  Danny Gokey

  Cities, Wisconsin, Most Amazing

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

  Glenn Sutton

  Drinking, Loser, Made

  "Song: "What's Made Milwaukee Famous"". May 1968.

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• There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

  Gwen Moore

  Impact, People, Walkers

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• I'm a Brewers fan. I was born in Milwaukee, so I'm all Wisconsin teams all day.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Team, Fans, Wisconsin

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• Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.

  Peter Buffett

  Home, Mean, People

  "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

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• I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

  Al Jarreau

  Doors, Taverns, Proud

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Robert Benchley (1954). “The Benchley Roundup”

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Veins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to LA when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  Jacob Latimore

  Grandmother, Views, Years

  "Exclusive: Jacob Latimore talks Black Nativity and Maze Runner". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. November 26, 2013.

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• My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Space, Would Be

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

  Bill Maher

  Iraq, President, Gold

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• My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.

  Peter Buffett

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

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• I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

  William Wegman

  Eyelashes, Rivers, Floating

  William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin

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• Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Special, Use

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• Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!

  Tucker Max

  Confused, Home, Men

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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