Place Quotes
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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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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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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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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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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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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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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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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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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
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Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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The place of the expert is on tap not on top.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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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.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
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I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
