Kansas Quotes - Page 6

• Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

  Simon Winchester

  Earth, States, Flux

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• Thus, in a crucial way, the Kansas hearings repeat the pattern set by the Scopes Trial, which has been repeated many times since, namely, evolutionists escaped critical scrutiny by not having to undergo cross-examination. In this case, they accomplished the feat by boycotting the hearings. I therefore await the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views.

  William A. Dembski

  Views, Trials, Examination

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

  George Will

  Book, Presidential, Patterns

  "Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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• Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

  James Green

  Kansas City, Airports, Cities

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• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Mean, Fighting

  "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

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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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• 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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• I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

  Martina McBride

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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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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• 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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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Rose, Support

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• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Writing

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.472, Random House

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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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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Musical

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Football, Team, Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."

  Kevin Sessums

  Dog, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, Storm, Fence

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, Writing, Law

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• When I visited KU, I thought, 'I wish I'd gone to Kansas.' They would take me around to their spots, and my spots at Indiana just felt like old hangouts. It was one of those times where you always wished you were somewhere else. But I was happy I ended up at Indiana coming from small little St. Louis.

  Joe Buck

  Somewhere Else, Wish, Gone

  Source: thebiglead.com

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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, Kansas City

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

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• If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Guy, Boho

  Source: craphound.com

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• After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

  Yony Leyser

  Ideas, Documentaries, Film

  Source: www.outsideleft.com

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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, Kansas City, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Night, Yesterday

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". www-s4.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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