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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to one of the chocolate factories in the U.K. It was disappointing. Not at all magical! And I thought, 'What a dull place to work.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ascension as interim president is based on Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution, according to which, if at the outset of a new term there is no elected head of state, power is vested in the president of the National Assembly until free and transparent elections take place.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
- Fireplace
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- Nov 07, 2020