Jersey Quotes - Page 15

• When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  Years, White, House

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

  Janet Evanovich

  Country, Air, Cake

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Dream, Dresses, Littles

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• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

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• Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

  James Surowiecki

  Sports, Nike, Blue

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• If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, America, What If

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

  Laura Kuenssberg

  Deny, British, Taxes

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• Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most notably the late William J. Brennan, who ushered in our nation's recommitment to civil rights in the latter half of the 20th century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Rights, Judging, Legacy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Cities, Emigration

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

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• Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.

  Terry Gross

  New York, California, Numbers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Kings, Real, Thinking

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• The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Years, People

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• The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Organization, Devil, Fans

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• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Growing Up, Kids

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

  Ezra Miller

  Dirty, Naughty, Depth

  Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

  Tim O'Brien

  Girl, College, Light

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People make fun of Jersey girls, but I think they're just jealous.

  Teresa Giudice

  Girl, Fun, Jealous

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• Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

  Rob Thurman

  Block, Half, World

  Rob Thurman (2010). “Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.

  Zach Braff

  New York, Boys, My Family

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• When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, School, Training

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• I was honored to wear 'Arizona' across my chest. I am extremely blessed to have my education completely paid for and take part in the great tradition of Wildcat softball. To have my jersey
  number retired was the ultimate compliment.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Blessed, Numbers

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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• If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Best Kept Secrets, People, States

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