Atlanta Quotes

• If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

  Chuck Tanner

  Baseball, Brave, Way

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• Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Thinking, Cities, Knows

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• The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Cities, Spirit

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• Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Dream, One Day

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• I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

  Jon Stewart

  Shopping, Clubs

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• For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

  Anne Edwards

  Home, Winning, Years

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• A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

  Ivan Allen, Jr.

  Rights, Special, Eras

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• Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Cities

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

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• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  Charley Pride

  Rocks, Way, Records

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• There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Summer, Shopping, Together

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• Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Real, Games, People

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• I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Olympics, Steps, Remember

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• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Farewell, Imagination, Fascination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Two, Months

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• I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

  Robert Gibbs

  Jobs, Best Job, Brave

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

  Lou Thesz

  Friday, Dollars, Gasoline

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• The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

  Ron Fairly

  Player, Thinking, Quality

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

  Julian Bond

  Class, Guy, Church

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• It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

  Knute Nelson

  War, Virginia, Enemy

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• That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

  Ernie Harwell

  Thinking, Years, Parent

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Jobs, People

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Allen West

  Education, Army, Men

  "Fiery Speech Thrusts Congressional Candidate Into National Spotlight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2009.

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• I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

  Todd Barry

  Doors, Kingdoms, Next

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• Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  Cam Newton

  Country, Fashion, New York

  "NFL Star Cam Newton Talks Fashion, Duck Dynasty, And Getting Video Bombed By His Teammates". Interview with Evan Schwartz, www.vibe.com. June 13, 2013.

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• My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Crazy, Father, Dancer

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