New Jersey Quotes - Page 4

• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  Taylor Swift

  Cute, Summer, Thinking

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• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

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• Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philadelphia, Dull, Next

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• Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

  James Thurber

  Names, Towns, Jersey

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.190, Library of America

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• Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

  Cassandra Clare

  Waiting, Toxic, Jersey

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

  Janet Evanovich

  Toxic Waste, Challenges, Way

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• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Jersey, Sometimes

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

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• I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the "Housewives." I am a huge fan of "New Jersey."

  NeNe Leakes

  Reality, Fans, Watches

  "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  Chris Christie

  Pain, Taken, Hands

  "Christie: Both sides playing politics, don't paint all Muslims as 'radical'". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Party, Believe

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• Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

  Chris Christie

  Squares, Government, America

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

  Harlan Coben

  New York, Jersey, Suburbs

  "Neighbourhood watcher" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2007.

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• My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

  Diablo Cody

  Italian, My Boyfriend, Jersey

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• I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

  Junot Diaz

  Kids, Jersey

  "Junot Diaz wins Pulitzer" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2008.

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• New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

  Junot Diaz

  African American, Alive, Jersey

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• I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

  Junot Diaz

  Powerful, Home, Leaving

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

  Junot Diaz

  Fiction, World, Today

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• My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

  Junot Diaz

  Mother, Father, Care

  "Junot Díaz's Pro-Woman Agenda" by Virginia Vitzthum, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Two, Vision

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Queens, Children, School

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

  Anne Hathaway

  Beautiful, New York, Growing Up

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• New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  New York, Growing Up, Shadow

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