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I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].
Kathryn Kuhlman
2.
Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town.
John Mulaney
I am an unfamiliar individual without shelter, of same-sex orientation, and afflicted with HIV.
3.
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town
Taylor Swift
I'm radiating like a beacon of light over your desolate, forsaken town.
4.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
Jayne Anne Phillips
Villages evolve; they swell or dwindle, but places of origin stay as we left them.
5.
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.
Grace Kelly
6.
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
Genghis Khan
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
Bill Pullman
8.
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
John Green
9.
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane
10.
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
Jacob Zuma
11.
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
Alan Jackson
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
Sadie Frost
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The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
Aaron Paul
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact.
Tinker Hatfield
17.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
Molly Sims
18.
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
Billy Wilder
19.
Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire
Rachel Caine
20.
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.
Vladimir Lenin
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A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
Rachel Field
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President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
Faith Hill
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I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
Fred Durst
25.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
Freya Stark
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
John Green
28.
I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?
David Nail
29.
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
Sheila Jackson Lee
30.
I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.
Guy Fieri
31.
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
Buddy Guy
33.
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.
Rick Riordan
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So get up, get, get get down 911 is a joke in yo town
Flavor Flav
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck
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Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
Arnold Rothstein
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
Bette Midler
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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
Otis Blackwell
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I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
Miley Cyrus
42.
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
John Steinbeck
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
Garrison Keillor
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In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
47.
There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.
Edward Lear
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John Green
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[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
Marlene Dietrich
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
Layne Staley