Jersey Quotes - Page 6

• If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.

  Raymond J. Donovan

  Country, Italian, Suspects

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• The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers.

  Demetri Martin

  Sports, Book, Kids

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• I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

  John Lloyd Young

  Singing, Actors, Dialect

  "John Lloyd Young Takes 'Jersey Boys' From Broadway To Screen". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 20, 2014.

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• It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Years, Zippers, Interesting

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• No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey.

  Jon Stewart

  New Jersey

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• Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

  Amy Poehler

  House, Pancakes, Firsts

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• Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are the only one who doesn't dress nicely. Everybody goes on vacations to a great place and you go to the Jersey shore. It's very hard to do these things without an organized mechanism, but it looks to me like there might be some organized mechanisms.

  Dan Ariely

  Vacation, Dresses, Looks

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

  Dwyane Wade

  Growing Up, Son, Maturity

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• The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, White, House

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Morning, Children, Home

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Great Things, New Jersey

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

  George Carlin

  Running, Rocks, Guy

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

  Doseone

  Art, Kids, Commitment

  "Doseone" by Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, School, Thinking

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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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, Moved

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

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• When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Loss, Florida

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Home, Oakland

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

  Ryan McGinley

  Art, Starbucks, My Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Europe, California, London

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• New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

  Richard Florida

  New York, Alaska, Kentucky

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• I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey.

  Maysoon Zayid

  Female, Palestinian, Disabled

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• My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Father, College

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.

  Jay Leno

  Player, America, Phoenix

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2010.

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• In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, Yield, Car

  Source: scottlondon.com

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