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- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each championship has felt different in its own way, I guess because I've been in different place of my life; I've gone through different things.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
- Violence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was washing dishes at Del Frisco's Grille and busing tables at a Tex-Mex place and writing songs the whole time. I did a lot of my writing at those jobs, thinking up melodies in my head.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020