Pittsburgh Quotes - Page 4

• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Way

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Today

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Poet, Smashing

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

  Lisi Harrison

  Football, Play, Steelers

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• Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Missing Someone, Missing

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• I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

  Jaromir Jagr

  New York, Hockey, Nhl

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• Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

  Patrick Roy

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  John Pople

  Years, Fundamentals, Return

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Names, People

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• According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
  live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
  in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
  Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

  Ed Rendell

  Cutting, Eagles, Selling

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• I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

  Joe Manganiello

  Home, Men, Roots

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• Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

  Steve Kroft

  Country, Bridges, Philadelphia

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

  Steve Kroft

  Bridges, People, Needs

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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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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• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  Billy Gardell

  Class, Chicago, Littles

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• I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.

  Tom Wolf

  Children, Philadelphia, Needs

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014

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• Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Running, Hurt, Memories

  Transcript: Drew Bledsoe Conference Call, www.patriots.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

  Mario Lemieux

  Speak English, Speak

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• Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Team, Hell

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• I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

  Barry Bonds

  Remember, Bad Times

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