tennessee Quotes and Quotations
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tennessee Quotes and Quotations
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The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. Roy Acuff | top
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. James Agee | top
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. Stephen Ambrose | top
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If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero. Phil Bredesen | top
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I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal. Miley Cyrus | top
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I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! Miley Cyrus | top
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I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. William Christopher Handy | top
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On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998. John Jay Hooker | top
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Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. John Jay Hooker | top
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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. William L. Jenkins | top
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. Elia Kazan | top
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I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so. Jerry Lawler | top
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I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play. Jamal Lewis | top
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I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. Lee Majors | top
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And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. Andrea Martin | top
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I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. Tim McGraw | top
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Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. Al Michaels | top
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature. Ann Patchett | top
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There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy. Louis Stokes | top
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Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. Gloria Swanson | top
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But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me. Mel Tillis | top
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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. Tina Turner | top
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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll. Eli Wallach | top
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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. Zach Wamp | top
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My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Kenneth G. Wilson | top
