Kansas City Quotes

• I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

  Roger Maris

  New York, Cities, Want

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• Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

  Chely Wright

  Believe, Simple, Cities

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• Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

  Howard Schultz

  Cities, America, Community

  "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround". Interview with Melissa Allison, www.seattletimes.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

  David Cook

  Years, Cities, Guy

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• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  Wavy Gravy

  Running, Cities, Should Have

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Two

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• I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

  Steve Buscemi

  New York, Character, Cities

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• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Doors

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

  Pat Metheny

  Cities, Musician, Able

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• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

  Pat Metheny

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

  Dante Hall

  Hands, Cities, City Walls

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• You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

  Mort Walker

  Cities, Trying, Paper

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• Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

  Wes Montgomery

  Night, Men, Kansas

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• If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

  John Kruk

  Wall, Cities, Royal

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• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  New Orleans, Cities, Style

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• It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Cousin

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• Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

  Jane D. Hull

  Cities, America, Ends

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• In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

  Tom DeLonge

  Years, America, President

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

  Herman Cain

  Cities, Twelve, Boards

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• There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Jobs, Cities, People

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• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  Ben Webster

  Night, Cities, Different

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• It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

  Jay McShann

  Two, Cities, Gigs

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• The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Vegetables, Cities

  Russell Baker (1990). “The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreams”, Plume

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• It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

  Calvin Trillin

  Cities, Long, World

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Cities

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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