Pittsburgh Quotes - Page 4

• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Way

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• If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Philadelphia, Today

  Entrevista en el Mundo de la Educación, www.educationworld.com.

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• There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Poet, Smashing

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

  Lisi Harrison

  Football, Play, Steelers

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• Echarte de menos es peor que Pittsburgh.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Echar de menos aalguien

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• I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

  Jaromir Jagr

  New York, Hockey, Nhl

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• Normalmente, cuando juegas contra un equipo, quieres centrarte en una línea. Pittsburgh es el único equipo en el que tienes que centrarte en un jugador [Mario Lemieux]. Cuando viene hacia ti, sólo le ves a él.

  Patrick Roy

  Equipo, Hockey, Jugador

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• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  John Pople

  Years, Fundamentals, Return

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• Hay un nuevo sheriff en la ciudad. Uno de los grandes corredores en línea de Pittsburgh Steelers [y] su nombre es Le'Veon Bell. Está en camino gente.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Correr, Nombres, Personas

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• According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
  live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
  in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
  Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.

  David Letterman

  Divertido, New York, Humor

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• American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

  Ed Rendell

  Cutting, Eagles, Selling

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• I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

  Joe Manganiello

  Home, Men, Roots

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• Pensilvania es uno de los peores estados del país en cuanto al estado de sus infraestructuras, y Filadelfia no está mejor que Pittsburgh. Nueve millones de personas al día transitan por 900 puentes clasificados como estructuralmente deficientes, algunos de ellos en un tramo muy transitado de la I-95.

  Steve Kroft

  Country, Bridges, Philadelphia

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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• En Pittsburgh, cinco millones de personas cruzan cada día puentes que deben ser sustituidos o sometidos a reparaciones importantes.

  Steve Kroft

  Bridges, People, Needs

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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• I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.

  John Landis

  New York, Winter, Thinking

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• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  Billy Gardell

  Class, Chicago, Littles

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• I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.

  Tom Wolf

  Children, Philadelphia, Needs

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Aug 15, 2014

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• Lesionarme y ver a Tom Brady tomar el relevo y comenzar lo que ha sido su espectacular carrera, y volver y jugar en el partido por el campeonato de la AFC contra los Steelers en Pittsburgh, y ayudarnos a ganar ese partido, es un recuerdo que se me queda muy claro.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Correr, Herir, Recuerdos

  Transcripción: Conferencia telefónica de Drew Bledsoe, www.patriots.com. 17 de mayo de 2011.

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• Creo que Ryan Murphy es un genio. Sus instintos me recuerdan a Andy Warhol. Hace poco fui al museo Warhol de Pittsburgh, y se pueden ver muchos ecos de Andy en la obra de Ryan. Como Andy, el dedo de Ryan está tan en el pulso de la cultura que va por delante de la cultura. Su estética y su visión del mundo son muy similares.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

  Mario Lemieux

  Speak English, Speak

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• Chuck Noll está construyendo un gran equipo de fútbol en Pittsburgh.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Team, Hell

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• I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

  Barry Bonds

  Remember, Bad Times

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