Hometown Quotes - Page 3

• The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

  Richard Dawson

  War, Color, Europe

  "Family Feud". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1976 - 1985).

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• Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

  Michael Moore

  80s And 90s, Giants, Michigan

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• The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.

  Andre Ward

  Taken, Fighting, Hbo

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• I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

  Maria Sharapova

  Children, School, Tennis

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• My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

  Ang Lee

  Air, Force, Bases

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Baseball, Dream, Team

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

  Fred Willard

  Cleveland, Rich

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• I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

  Jewel

  Home, Alaska, Debt

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• I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

  Matthew Perry

  Kings, Team, Fans

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• Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.

  Mike Pence

  Growing Up, Unique, Special

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, House, Amusement

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• [Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

  Antonio Banderas

  Age, Connections, Strange

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk the Expendables 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

  Junot Diaz

  Years, Trying, Five

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• I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

  Princess Superstar

  New York, I Love New York

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• Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

  Edward Hoagland

  Parent, One Day, Days Off

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• Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Distance, Oxygen, Parent

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• It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

  Jamie McMurray

  Home, Past, People

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• I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Thinking, Armor, Not Sure

  Source: collider.com

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• Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Alaska

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Interesting, Library

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• I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Government, Dancing, Singing

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• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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• You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

  Robert Breault

  Stories, Littles, Tvs

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• I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.

  Lenny Moore

  School, College, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I feel like, If I would have lived in my hometown, I probably would have gotten in a lot more trouble. I was just in places where I could have gotten in trouble. I skateboarded a lot, just getting into the wrong stuff. I could've just hung out with the wrong friends.

  Justin Bieber

  Stuff, Wrong Friends, Trouble

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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