Minneapolis Quotes

• Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

  Steven Brust

  Two, Snow, Removal

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• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Writing, Philadelphia

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• St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

  Bud Selig

  Milwaukee

  "MLB by the Numbers, but Who's Buying?". Sports Business Journal, December 24-30, 2001.

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• I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

  Charlie Chaplin

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

  Garrison Keillor

  Catholic, Firsts, Steps

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• The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.

  Nikki Jean

  People, Community, Atmosphere

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• Before I had a driver's license, and I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis and went to high school and came home - I could ride my bike around or get a ride from my parents, but my world was pretty small, limited. Like anyone at that age, I only knew things I could get to.

  Craig Finn

  Home, School, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

  Deke Slayton

  Nice, Sunny Afternoon, Feet

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• The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

  Paul Reubens

  Real, Party, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

  Marion Ross

  Nice, Born

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  Warren Buffett

  Microsoft, Mail, Court

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• I don't love LA. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

  Josh Hartnett

  New York, Choices, Ifs

  "Hart throb". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2002.

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Offering, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Kids, Nine

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• I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Home, Writing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

  Elayne Boosler

  Cities, Comedian, East

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• Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.

  Kate DiCamillo

  New York, Hollies, Agents

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview by Claire Kirch, www.publishersweekly.com. September 9, 2010.

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• [Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Night, Laughing, Three

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Airports, Guy, Matter

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and a guy came up. He said, 'Dude, I saw you on TV last night.' But he did not say whether or not he thought I was good, he just confirmed that I was on television. So I turned my head away from him for about a minute, then I turned it back. I said, 'Dude, I saw you at the airport about a minute ago. And you were good.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Night, Next Day, Airports

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• A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

  James E. Myers

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.

  Jay Leno

  Past, Thinking, Two

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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