Boston Quotes - Page 13

• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  Gary Burton

  Player, East, Four

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• Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Play, Fans

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• My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mom, Teaching, Years

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• I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

  Eliza Dushku

  Stars, School, Political

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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Determination, Hard Work

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Berries, Zeppelins

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Circles, Boards, Economic

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• My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

  Doug Flutie

  Song, Play, Band

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  East, Lace, Brahmins

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Giving

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up

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• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Song, New York, Memories

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• I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

  James Fallows

  Phoenix, People, News

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• Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Spring, Winning

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• When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with my roommate... These guys said, 'We're going to this club. Just don't go in the washroom.' It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in!

  Stana Katic

  New York, Ideas, Cbgb

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• Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.

  Grant Hill

  Sports, Memories, Garden

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• Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

  Billy Herman

  Winter, August, Two

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

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• I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.

  Billy Graham

  College, Years, President

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• A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, School, Simple

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• The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Blue, Drunk, Ugly

  "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Years, Adults

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• I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

  Bill Walton

  Cheer, Team, Shoes

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

  Brad Falchuk

  Moving, Quality, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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