Long Island Quotes - Page 3

• His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

  Joe Biden

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

  "Only ABC Highlights Biden's Gaffe About 'Dead' Mother of Irish PM, Stephanopoulos Lauds VP's 'Smile'". www.newsbusters.org. March 18, 2010.

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• I've never even been to Long Island

  Meg Cabot

  Islands, Long

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Jinx”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

  Martin Filler

  New York, Writing, Islands

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Teenager, Islands, Long

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• It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Islands, Long, Drink

  "Snooki reveals her weight loss secret -- vodka, straight up!" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Islands, Who I Am

  "The Gospel according to Bill O'Reilly?". Interview with Norah O'Donnell, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2013.

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• I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

  Jim Brown

  School, Games, Islands

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• I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.

  Meg Cabot

  Islands, Long, Way

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• Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

  Criss Angel

  Mother, Kids, Islands

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• I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.

  Rachel Uchitel

  Believe, Kids, Fighting

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• General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

  Mercy Otis Warren

  New York, Army, Islands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.316

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

  Tim Bishop

  Unique, Islands, Long

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

  William Bell

  Night, Islands, Years

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• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Islands, Long

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