Place Quotes
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Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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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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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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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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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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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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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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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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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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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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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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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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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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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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I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
