Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm… — Lindsey Wixson Copy Share Image
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall. — John Kruk Copy Share Image
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world,… — Phil Ehart Copy Share Image
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want… — Bill Conti Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“By 1997, when Kansas City finally gave up, it had the most extravagant schools in the country, but the percentage of whites… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City,… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
“They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could… — Barry Sanders Copy Share Image
The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
People's outlook on Kansas City is always like, 'They let you rap in K.C.?' Or 'How's Dorothy and Toto?' They put Kansas… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow.… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite… — Ben Webster Copy Share Image
Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in… — James Brolin Copy Share Image
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is… — David Cook Copy Share Image
Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
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