North Carolina Quotes - Page 5

• North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

  Lizz Winstead

  Fighting, Amazing Places, Best Food

  Source: www.elle.com

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• From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

  Bev Perdue

  Strong, Military, Bridges

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.

  Armistead Maupin

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

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• North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from the reflections of a man who was wrong on every major issue for 40 years. Helms' aides say the proceeds from the book will be donated to the non-profit Jesse Helms Center where they apparently have more experience burning than publishing them.

  Paul Begala

  Book, Writing, Reflection

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• The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

  Tim Lucas

  Eye, Rising, Next

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• I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

  Ron Rash

  Long, Landscape, My Family

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• I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

  Kathy Reichs

  Police, Bones, Found

  "This much I know" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.

  Bill Maher

  Uncles, Crazy, Law

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• The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times this year. We've played North Carolina and Duke back-to-back that this would be the third time. We're just very prepared for this moment.

  Shay Doron

  Reality, Years, Games

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• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Growing Up, Coffee, Blood

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• I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

  Eddie Glaude

  Zero, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Swings, Wish

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• My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in my care. And it needed a lot of it. Most importantly, it needed a new roof. There was a worrying stain on the ceiling of my bedroom that had started out roughly the shape of Rhode Island, but now looked more like North Carolina. Another few more days of rain and it was going to be Texas. And then it wouldn’t be anything at all because the battered old shingles were going to cave in on my head.

  Karen Chance

  Uncles, Rain, Rhode Island

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• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Football, Regret, Thinking

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• My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Crazy, Fighting, People

  "Let the Games Begin!". www.vanityfair.com. December 2011.

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• Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

  Chris Paul

  New Orleans, People, Going Out

  "Chris Paul Looks Good in a Suit (and Not Just for an NBA All-Star)". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2009.

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• This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the NAFTA deal and then China's entry into the World Trade Organization, another Bill[Clinton] and Hillary[Clinton] backed disaster, have sent those jobs to other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Organization

  Source: time.com

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• How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

  David Gene Gibbs

  Christian, Kings, Moving

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• There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Unique, Kentucky

  "John Calipari Won't Acknowledge That Louisville Is In Kentucky" by Mike Rutherford, www.sbnation.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Voting, States

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Guy, African American

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Games, People, Dukes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

  John Shelby Spong

  Slavery, Segregation, Grew Up

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I remember back when I was 10 and my dad was telling me: Hey, I'm going on a trip this week to play out in Lake Tahoe. I didn't really know where Lake Tahoe was going back, living back in North Carolina.

  Stephen Curry

  Dad, Lakes, Play

  Source: wearegolf.org

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