Iowa Quotes - Page 5

• For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Country, Writing, School

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• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Home, Average

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Decision, Athletic

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• I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.

  Jason Momoa

  Hawaii, Born, Raised

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

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Winning, Ideas

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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• You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Country, Cities, Ideas

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• Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

  Justin Cronin

  Girl, Years, Amy

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

  John Irving

  Father, Voice, Unhappy

  "The Hotel New Hampshire". Book by John Irving, 1981.

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• Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

  Dana Stabenow

  Mean, Idaho, Alaska

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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• There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.

  Joe Biden

  African American, Looks, Minorities

  "WaPo Downplays Biden's Latest Racial Blooper; NYT, LAT Ignore It". Article by Mark Finkelstein, www.newsbusters.org. October 26, 2007.

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• People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Winning, Names

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, People

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• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  William H. Gass

  Country, Illinois, Fog

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.193, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

  Al Sharpton

  Two, Months, Freak

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like I had big dreams, but it wasn't that I felt I couldn't have any. I always felt very capable.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Dream, Matter, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Different, Needs

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• In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?

  Li Ang

  Running, Government, Asking

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• Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

  Michele Bachmann

  Crazy, Want, Spirit

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion and it's not always the fun part of it.

  Gail O'Grady

  Fun, Thinking, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

  Donald J. Carty

  Aunt, People, Tolerance

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• After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Mother, Father, Son

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• I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.

  Eric Christian Olsen

  Inbreeding, Three, Generations

  "Eric Christian Olsen On Set Interview THE THING". Interview, collider.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Awards, Government

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• If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

  Dan Gable

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Years

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