Minnesota Quotes

• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  Jesse Ventura

  Power, Locked Up, Ifs

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• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  Jim Ramstad

  Compassion, People, Relief

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Matter

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• In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Safety, Drug

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• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Feelings, Doe, Band

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• I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

  Loni Anderson

  Teacher, Degrees, Minutes

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• The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

  Al Franken

  Moving On, Running, Home

  "Al Franken gets serious about politics". www.today.com. November 9, 2005.

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

  Jessica Lange

  Growing Up, Doors, Felt

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Pockets, Rising

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• During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Years, Enzymes, Evening

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, School, Made

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• I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Lakes, Swamps

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• When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

  Mary MacLane

  Taken, Years, Vapid

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• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Judy Davis

  Father, Pride, Gay

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• I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Home, Cat, Two

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• I grew up in Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

  Grew Up, Grew

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• I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

  Sean William Scott

  Kindness, Nice, Shopping

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• I love everything Minnesota.

  Sean William Scott

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• When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

  Jesse Ventura

  Raised, Ran, Governors

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• In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms.

  Bruce Lansky

  Night, Two, Cold

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• I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

  Chris Cornell

  Life, California, Feelings

  "Song: Outshined (Badmotorfinger)". December 1991.

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• I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Believe, Thinking, Littles

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

  Al Franken

  Engagement, Records, Treasure

  "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fall, Panic

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