Place Quotes
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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The place of the expert is on tap not on top.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
