Kansas City Quotes - Page 3

• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  Jennifer Granholm

  Home, School, Cities

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• I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

  James Ellroy

  Cities, Careers, Profound

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

  Nick Kroll

  Cities, Together, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

  Josh Earnest

  Laughter, Play, Cities

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• Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Rights, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.

  Laura Moriarty

  Book, Writing, Dvds

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

  Jack Paar

  Cities, Flying, Dry

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• When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

  Carlos Beltran

  Baseball, Jesus, Heart

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• Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

  Calvin Trillin

  Basketball, Sports, Texas

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• And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.

  Kate Spade

  Fashion, New York, School

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• The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

  Jason Wiles

  School, Years, Bridges

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