Jersey City Quotes

• I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

  Frank Vincent

  Believe, Cities, Challenges

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• And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.

  Laura E. Richards

  Loss, Rocks, Sea

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• I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

  Richard Price

  Writing, Cities, Police

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Cities, Interesting

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Hero, Mean, Cities

  "Green Eggs and Sam". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

  Derek Luke

  School, College, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Cities, Outsiders, Jersey

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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