Midwest Quotes - Page 2

• Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sunday, Weekend, Hiking

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• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

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• I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

  Scott Walker

  Impact, Play, Roles

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• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Pittsburgh

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• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, California, People

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

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• After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, August, Should Have

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• I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Jobs, Nice

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• When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

  Tommy Bolin

  Mind, East, West Coast

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• Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Father, Real

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

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• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

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• Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

  Judy Woodruff

  Voters, Democrat

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• So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And so we leave it sorrowfully, having grown strong and restless by opposing with all our will and mind and muscle its simple, loving, single will for us: that we stay, that we stay and find a place among its familiar possibilities. Mother knew we would go; she encouraged us.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Mother, Running

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• I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Fit

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  Garrison Keillor

  New York, Want, Intensity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

  Shawn Ryan

  Art, New York, Kids

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sports, Growing Up, Night

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• I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

  Len Cariou

  Sweet, Children, Growing Up

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• I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

  Bill Goldberg

  Hockey, Grew Up, Grew

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• There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

  Vinod Khosla

  Country, Technology, Wind

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• You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Personality, Gone

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

  Jeremy Piven

  Reality, Actors, Entourage

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

  Jeremy Piven

  Reality, Sharks, Opposites

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• I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Guy, Towns, Small Town

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

  Michael McMillian

  Christian, Mother, Sunday

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• Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Mcdonalds, Atheism

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