Cleveland Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

  Tracy Chapman

  School, Kids, Way

  "The quiet revolutionary". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler

  Patrick Dempsey

  Jobs, Kids, Weekend

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  Betty White

  Retirement, Blessed, Thinking

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

  James Cromwell

  Theatre, London, Birth

  "Tribeca Film Festival Interview: John and James Cromwell of A .45 at 50th". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2010.

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• I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Goal, Huge

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• I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Heart, Perfect

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• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Income, Purpose

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• I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

  LeBron James

  Careers, Return, Always Believe

  "LeBron James returning to Cleveland, where he has unfinished business" by Jason Hanna, www.cnn.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

  Red Buttons

  Funny, Travel, Brother

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• We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

  LeBron James

  Growing Up, Hate, People

  "Cleveland still on LeBron James' mind", www.espn.com. August 18, 2010.

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• In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Country, Fun, Russia

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• You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

  Paul Fleischman

  Spring, Lakes, Lake Erie

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• [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.

  Michael Chabon

  Couple, Boys, Men

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

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• It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Heaven, Turns

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• He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leader, President, Firsts

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.21, New Word City

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• The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

  Richie Scheinblum

  Baseball, Road Trip, Good Things

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• I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

  Stan Coveleski

  People, Towns, Knows

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• God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

  John Ortberg

  God, Jobs, Vacation

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.

  Wes Craven

  Real, War, Father

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, New York, Airplane

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