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Roots Quotes
Where people come from, and what pulls them back.
These quotes describe roots as both a personal foundation - stand-up comedy as one performer's origin story - and a cultural tie worth revisiting, like returning to a hometown left behind to reconnect with its people. See Family quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that I'm never going to be Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Chase Elliott. You're not going to have that connection, the hardcore roots with the fans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important to me to stick to my roots by doing what's West Coast: wearing T-shirts and shorts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'snakebot', which is a type of mechanized, biologically inspired robot, itself has roots in Japanese laboratories of the 1970s. What the team at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon is doing today under professor Howie Choset is making the 'snakebots' stronger, smaller, and more maneuverable than ever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.
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Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool thing about superheroes is that they all have these very human roots, and that brings them all together and makes them all the same, in a way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
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