Midwesterners Quotes

• These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

  Lewis Black

  Dream, Land, America

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

  Ron Wyden

  Simple, Oil, Numbers

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

  Aidan Quinn

  Thinking, People, My Family

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• What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

  Charles Baxter

  Heart, Sight, Guy

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.140, Vintage

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• There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Miracle, World, Asia

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• I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.

  Amy Pietz

  Beer, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.

  Leigh Michaels

  Book, Luxury, People

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• It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to cheer. In Wisconsin, we have enacted more than $2 billion in tax cuts, giving our citizens much-needed relief, call us crazy Midwesterners but we think you know how to spend your money better than the government.

  Marco Rubio

  Cheer, Crazy, Cutting

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• I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Country, Two, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Florida, Mermaid, Nineteen

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Growing Up, Focus

  "Gaffigan laugh again with Northwest Indiana native bounces back from shaky sitcom by hooking up with new 'Ellen' show". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, June 24, 2001.

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• At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

  Paul Rudd

  Core

  "Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.

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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

  Kansas, Friendly, Chicago

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

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• I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

  Philip Caputo

  Towns, Birth, Small Town

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• I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Would Be, Able, Torture

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Ambition, Pride, Organization

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• We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Illinois, Cities

  "Vince Vaughn in Love". Interview with Gary Dretzka, www.chicagomag.com. June, 2006.

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• Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Typical, Conditions

  "Stage acting? It's just too hard" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

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