Iowa Quotes - Page 4

• Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, People, Waking

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• When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Reading, Mind, Groups

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• Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

  Joan Didion

  Land, California, West Coast

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.31, Zola Books

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• Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

  David Letterman

  People, Driving, Clinton

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• Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

  Paul Engle

  Children, Church Bells, Sound

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

  Eminem

  Internet, Sponges

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• I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Goal, Coaching

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• Look what Ted Cruz did with Ben Carson, who's endorsed me, a great guy. Look what he did to Ben Carson. He said that Ben Carson in Iowa has left, he's out of the campaign, vote for me. Thousands of people voted for him because he convinced people that Ben Carson had left the campaign.

  Donald Trump

  People, Guy, Ben Carson

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Rolling

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• I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, Fiction, Taste

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• I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama, then candidate Obama, going through Iowa making promises. I think the gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

  Mitt Romney

  Wedding, Promise, President

  "Romney: Obama’s promises as good as Kim Kardashian's wedding vows" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. January 2, 2012.

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• One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

  Roseanne Barr

  Firsts, Made, Shows

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• In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Vegas, Play

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• I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

  Albert Brooks

  Politician, Members, Caucus

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• An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

  Bill Bryson

  Space, Looks, Hedgerows

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• Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Creative, Desire

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.

  Ashley Greene

  Stars, Fun, Lucky

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• In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, Tuesday, Dollars

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• I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Country, Kids, Big Families

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• I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

  Marco Rubio

  Offensive, Candidates, Coordinator

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Political, Presidential

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• I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

  Al Sharpton

  Dean, Wanted, Stills

  Al Sharptona at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

  Corey Taylor

  Kids, Animal, People

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• Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Ocean, Cities, Culture

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• It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

  Chuck Grassley

  Campaigns, Elsewhere, Ifs

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