Towns Quotes - Page 7

• For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

  Moby

  Mom, Men, Years

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• People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

  Michael Moore

  College, Class, People

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• I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

  Michael Moore

  Eagles, Mad, Pollution

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• All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

  Evo Morales

  People, Bolivia, World

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Ideas, Mixing, Speech

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

  Mira Nair

  Book, India, World

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

  Mira Nair

  World, Small Town, Grew

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

  Jo Nesbo

  Museums, Water, House

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• President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, President, Facts

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• I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Inspiration, People, Would Be

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

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• The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Hate, Squares, Limits

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• There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

  Conor Oberst

  Growing Up, Cities, Ideas

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• I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

  Nick Offerman

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

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• I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

  James Otis

  Order, Liberty, Obedience

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• I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Responsibility, Community, Small Town

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  New York, Cities, People

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• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

  Dolly Parton

  Looks, Tramps

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

  Harold Prince

  College, Nine, Saws

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

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• When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Travel, Sandwiches, Clubs

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• You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mom, People, Kicking

  "Dennis Quaid and Director Ramin Bahrani Talk AT ANY PRICE, the American Dream, and Ending on a Morally Ambiguous Note". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Cities, London

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• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  Satyajit Ray

  Class, Play, Cities

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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