Columbus Ohio Quotes

• I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.

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  David Pajo

  Ohio   Three   Midwest  

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

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  Dwight Yoakam

  Children   Kentucky   Ohio  

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• My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.

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  Les Miles

  Mom   Brother   Home  

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• Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

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  Brent Musburger

  Baseball   Football   Team  

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• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf   Ohio   Design  

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• Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

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  James Thurber

  Memories   Father   Mean  

  JAMES THURBER (1945). “THE THURBER CARNIVAL”

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• I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

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  Michael Feinstein

  Ohio   Years   Piano  

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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  Ethel Waters

  Ohio   Mohawks   Columbus  

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• I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

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  Woody Harrelson

  Running   Ohio   Firsts  

  Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2012.

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