Kansas Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.

  David Foster Wallace

  Military, Real, Rivers

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

  George H. W. Bush

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.

  Debra Messing

  Divorce, Careers, Starting Over

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

  Bert Blyleven

  Cities, Kansas City, Royal

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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, Kansas City, Long

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

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• Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Cities, Kansas City, Up To Date

  "Kansas City" (song) (1943)

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• I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  August, Corny

  "A Wonderful Guy" (song) (1949)

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• I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

  Lou Piniella

  Baseball, Yankees, Cities

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• Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

  Ben Sollee

  Art, Dubai, Hands

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• I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

  Moshe Safdie

  Thinking, Kansas City, Essence

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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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• A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

  Tom Piazza

  Book, Cities, Kansas City

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  Ed Asner

  Jobs, Cities, Kansas City

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• They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.

  Jay Leno

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.

  Ilana Mercer

  Father, Commitment, Boys

  "The Big Lie about Obama and Race". www.wnd.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Said, Knows

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.65, Del Rey

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• He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

  Gore Vidal

  Prejudice, Insult, Housewife

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• You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

  George Plimpton

  Cutting, Doe, Cash

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• In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

  Jane Fonda

  Night, Cities, People

  "Jane Fonda spit on by Vietnam vet". www.wnd.com. April 20, 2005.

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• August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Travel, Kings

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• First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Friendly, Chicago, Cows

  "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.

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• 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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• All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Cat, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask.

  Jennifer Beals

  Home, Sprung Up, Community

  Message on ourchart.com, October 16, 2008.

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