- Nov 07, 2020
East Coast Quotes
Voices shaped by growing up or traveling along the coast.
This page gathers reflections from people whose accents, upbringing, or career paths were shaped by living along the eastern seaboard, from childhood in a coastal Chinese city to college years in Maine. For related themes on roots and belonging, see the Family quotes page.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think from an East Coast point of view, you'd be like, 'Oh, a California record's a sunny record.' It's like you spend three hours in the studio because the rest of the time you must be at the beach.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
- Confining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
- Certain Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The South Side loves me - I've got a song with Jermaine Dupri - and I've got songs on the East Coast and songs on the West Coast. Now, if I could just find me a rapper from up North.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
- Enamored
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- Nov 07, 2020