Peoria has been near and dear in my heart. It's been with me wherever I've been. I always have wanted to give… — Shaun Livingston Copy Share Image
“I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos.” — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid going to Peoria for the Junior Olympics or something. It was not a major-league stadium with three… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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