Portland Quotes

• I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

  Elliott Smith

  New York, Different, Different Place

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• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  Lance Armstrong

  Portland Oregon, Weather, Path

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Passion, Hands

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• Portland is where young people go to retire.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Young, Retiring

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• When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Country, Lonely, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Oregon, Towns

  "Patti Smith interview: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

  Rose McGowan

  Girl, Queens, Taken

  "Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bi-Sexual". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  Beth Ditto

  Artist, Oregon, Perfect

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

  Leni Zumas

  Places To Live, Magnificent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,'and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

  Fred Armisen

  Coffee, Oregon, People

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

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• I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

  Connie Nielsen

  Gun, Fbi Agents, Female

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

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• There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

  Fred Armisen

  Coffee, Cities, Littles

  "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.

  Sloane Crosley

  Creative, Scene, Great Food

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

  Greg Oden

  Cities, African American, Males

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• We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

  Tom McCall

  Moving, Portland Oregon, Heaven

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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• I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

  Elliott Smith

  Moving, Wanted

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• I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

  George J. Mitchell

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

  Elliott Smith

  Jobs, Tree, Bamboo

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• People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

  Kunal Nayyar

  People, Safety, Risk

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

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• We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Moving, People, Tragedy

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• I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

  Donald Miller

  Eye, Night, Men

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible? Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals? No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though. The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north. Deal.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Talking, Whales

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• Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Real, Hippie

  "Morocco (Tangier)". www.cnn.com.

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