Philadelphia Quotes - Page 3

I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on Thursday and see an episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia,' I don't know if I want to live in that world.

Rob McElhenney

Dark, World, Want

Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.

Alice-Leone Moats

Party, Gay, Men

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Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Jill Scott

Minutes, Moved

"Traveling with the Stars: Jill Scott". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 23, 2009.

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Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.

James Madison

Fall, Independent, Men

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It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

Jim Leyland

Winter, Lasts, Well Known

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You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

Phil Collins

Regret, Son

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

Robert Anton Wilson

Dull, Next, Jersey

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I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Eric Weiner

Men, Want Something, Pieces

"How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

Cory Lidle

Dog, Mistake, Good Friend

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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.

Michael Nutter

Running, War, Eye

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Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Judith Viorst

Love You, Being In Love, Love Is

Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charlie Chaplin

Discovery, Atheism, Lectures

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I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Shane Carruth

Hard Times, Tv Shows, Sitting Down

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Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

Jimmy Fallon

Art, Fighting, Museums

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It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

Cleveland Amory

New York, Men, Boston

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The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

Russell Lynes

Art, Cutting, Islands

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Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.

David Letterman

Eagles, Nfl, White

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Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

Funny, Baseball, Lying

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...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

Paul Douglas

Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

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On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

Fred Shero

Sports, People, Coaching

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The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.

Doug Collins

Team, Heart, Opportunity

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The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Colin Wilson

Ideas, America, Facts

Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.

John Landis

New York, Winter, Thinking

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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Jemima Kirke

Art, Real, Able

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

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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

Daryl Hall

Black, Towns, Grew

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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