Bill Dedman Quotes

It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.

Bill Dedman

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CultureSurpriseParisLondonEurope

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

Joe Gebbia

CarExperienceTravelPeopleBelieve

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Jo Cox

PoliticalYouBornNeverUpWhere

I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.

Andris Nelsons

SportsGreatCultureAmericaKnow

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

Meg Cabot

ArtSchoolWritingTheatreNewspaper

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

John McCain

LifeLoveBestWorldMy LifeKnow

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Meredith Eaton

ChildrenSchoolPeopleCollegeHelp

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

Rush Limbaugh

PeopleYouFirst AmendmentListen

I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.

Lukas Forchhammer

WinterHomeGrowing UpWritingSong

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'

Jonathan LaPaglia

GoodWalkMeThinkAmericanActing

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SlowInternetFastQuietBooksLoud

We must form public-private partnerships to collectively improve children's health.

Denise Morrison

ChildrenHealthPartnershipsImprove

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

Brantley Gilbert

LiveSameUpWhereStillTown

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