Kansas Quotes - Page 7

• (...) I don´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -You´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Want, Jake, Drink

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• I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

  L. Frank Baum

  Beautiful, People, Brain

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.35, Collector's Library

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• The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Player, Rocks, Cities

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• Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

  L. Frank Baum

  Girl, Land, Long

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.105, Collector's Library

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• When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

  Donald Miller

  Country, Airplane, House

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.238, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day.  If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.

  Jonis Agee

  Book, Years, Car

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Wish

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• With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

  David Cook

  Games, Cities, Kansas City

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• Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Funny, Travel, Real

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• My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

  Hunter Parrish

  Mom, Dad, Childhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Book, People

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• I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Thinking, Names, Ems

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• I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

  David Salle

  Art, Holiday, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do - to know God and to share God.

  Chely Wright

  Girl, Christian, Country

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

  Simon Winchester

  Australia, Nebraska, Emergencies

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• I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

  Hayley Atwell

  Dad, Aunt, Virginia

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• If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

  Paul Westhead

  Basketball, Sports, Writing

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• Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

  Hayley Atwell

  Summer, Dad, Cities

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Hands, Yellow, Gold

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• Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.

  David Blankenhorn

  Religious, Couple, Gay

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• Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Book, Cities, Kansas City

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• [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

  Will Eisner

  Book, Kids, Years

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• Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

  Paul Pierce

  Men, Expectations, Uniforms

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• Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist, I see these the relevancy between the two sets to be equal. If Kansas is going to mess up like this, the least it can do is not be hypocritical and allow equal time for other alternative "theories" like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.

  Julian Simon

  Religious, School, Marine

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