Jersey Quotes - Page 11

• I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.

  Jim Norton

  Boston, Cleveland, Four

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• What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  Ocean, Sides, World

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1044, ShandonPress

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• During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hands, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• I really think that the Jersey Boys musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because its a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.

  Vincent Piazza

  Song, Character, Thinking

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• I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

  Vincent Piazza

  Thinking, Degrees, Stories

  "Meet the Four Stars of Jersey Boys". Interview with Chris Willman, parade.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I grew up in New Jersey in the '80s. That means one thing: Big hair. ... I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show.

  Jancee Dunn

  Dog, Mean, Hair

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• It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

  Richard Schiff

  Tough, Stage, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In ‘The Client List’ & Life After ‘The Playboy Club’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Before Jersey Shore, I was a DJ struggling to promote, deejaying six nights a week and hustling to pack clubs.

  Pauly D

  Struggle, Night, Hustle

  "Jersey Shore Season 3 Finale: Pauly D Interview on Justin Bieber & More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. March 23, 2011.

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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

  Robert Benchley

  Marriage, Sex, Divorce

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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• We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Opportunity, Needs, Answers

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• The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

  William Carlos Williams

  Crazy, Lakes, Kentucky

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Moon, Opportunity

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• New Jersey gives us glue.

  Howard Dietz

  Giving, Glue, New Jersey

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• The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Health, Eye

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• The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.

  John Hodgman

  Ocean, Cities, Guy

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Simple, Popular Vote

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• I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Thinking

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• Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

  James Lecesne

  Growing Up, Catholic, Important

  "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

  Chris Lilley

  People, Cameras, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Distance, Parent

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• If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

  Sergio Ramos

  Football, Player, Breathe

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