New Jersey Quotes - Page 9

• Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Writing, Addresses

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• I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Musical, Jersey

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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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• I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

  Joe Dante

  Sports, Father, Golf

  "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

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• School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.

  Richard Codey

  Children, School, Healthy Habits

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• I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

  Patrick Carney

  Friday, Tools, Jersey

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• Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

  Jason Alexander

  New York, Way, West

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

  Ezra Miller

  Dirty, Naughty, Depth

  Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

  O. Henry

  Ocean, Sides, Jersey

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1044, ShandonPress

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• A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Doctors, Years

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• Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

  James Lecesne

  Growing Up, Catholic, Important

  "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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• And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

  Chris Christie

  Home, Thinking, People

  Interview with Piers Morgan, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2011.

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• After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

  Matthew Quick

  Powerful, Silly, Thinking

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.

  Cassandra Clare

  Toxic, Jersey, Born

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.733, Simon and Schuster

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• It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

  Jon Stewart

  Kings, Atlanta, Different

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• And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.

  Meg Cabot

  Drug, Black, Brooklyn

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

  Tim O'Brien

  Girl, College, Light

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust.

  John Gorka

  World, Today, Too Much

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• I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

  Bernie Worrell

  Long, Branches, Taught

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• I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Madrid, Jersey, Spain

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

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• Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Heaven, Looks, Jersey

  "Jon Bon Jovi Takes to Facebook to Assure Fans He Is Still Alive", www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

  Neal Shusterman

  Travel, Exit, Jersey

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• Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Country, Home, My Boyfriend

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