Baltimore Quotes

• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm an everything Baltimore fan.

  Josh Charles

  Fans

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

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• What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

  Barbara Mikulski

  People, Community, Goes On

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• Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

  Frederick Douglass

  Foundation, Prosperity, Gateways

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.68, Frederick Douglass

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• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

  Laura Lippman

  Perfect, Resilience

  "Laura Lippman's Baltimore: Loving a Flawed Place". "Morning Edition" with John Ydstie and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. August 23, 2007.

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• Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

  Gertrude Stein

  Once Upon A Time

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.479, Northwestern University Press

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• Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Gay, Polite, Pleasant

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman (1994). “A Life in Letters”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

  Jacques Lacan

  Morning, Early Morning, Unconscious

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• Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

  John Waters

  People, Towns, Never Change

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• Baltimore is a great place.

  Julie Bowen

  "Juggling the demands of two families". The Otago Daily Times Interview, www.odt.co.nz. December 21, 2010.

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• If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Illinois, Iraq, Baghdad

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Fifty, May

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• I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

  Art Modell

  Years, Cleveland, Enjoyed

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• Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.

  Christian Siriano

  Cute, Christian, School

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• If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

  Serge Lang

  Views, Community, Serious

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.266, Springer Science & Business Media

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• To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

  Norman Granz

  Next Week, Years, Play

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• I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

  Josh Charles

  Sports, Team, Fans

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

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• I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Opportunity, World

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• Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

  Buffalo Bill

  Actors, Combination, Troupe

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• We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

  Bob Lilly

  Passed Away, Young, Prime

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• In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.

  Sheldon Candis

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.

  Felicia Pearson

  Real, People, Fake

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal.

  John Waters

  New York, Crazy, Character

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• Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

  David Simon

  Moving, College, Essence

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