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Sacramento Snapshot: Classic cars and environmental regulations at the Capitol

A bill that would pump the brakes on smog check requirements for certain classic cars got the green light from a group of legislators last week. Sponsored by comedian and car enthusiast Jay Leno, the bill would exempt collector cars that are at least 35 model years old from biennial smog check inspections. It would also exempt those vehicles from smog checks upon the transfer of ownership. The…

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Jay Leno Speaks up at CA Capitol, Hoping to Save the Industry for Classic Cars From Hollywood's Fate

The California Capitol in Sacramento had a surprise guest this week, as comedian Jay Leno made an appearance on Tuesday. The former "Tonight Show" host was there in support of Senate Bill 712, which would revise the state's current smog check exemption to cover more classic cars. 

Leno is well known as an avid automobile collector and in his remarks, he didn't mince words about how the state's (majority-Democrat) government let high costs run the movie business out of California. He said he doesn't want to see the same thing happen to the businesses that service these treasures on wheels. More on that in a minute.

His appearance came at the invitation of state Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), who wrote the SB 712 bill. She explained, "We're trying to bring back the old rolling exemption for a 35-year exemption to exclude classic cars." 

"Obviously there's people out there from the environmental groups that think that we're trying to contaminate the air or not require smog checks," Grove said, "but that is just not true." 

After the legislator and Leno struck up a conversation about their love of the cars at a charity event, Grove even dubbed her bill "Leno's Law." Earlier in April, the bill was brought up in the Senate Transportation Committee.

The current regulations exempt any car built in 1975 and older from being required to pass a smog check, but the bill's supporters are hoping for two tweaks: for the exemption to cover cars made 35 years ago or older, and covering only classic collector cars, not vehicles that people drive every day.

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The comedian began by admitting that he's well aware of "annoying celebrities coming to Sacramento," since he watches them do it on television, and "they have no idea what they're talking about most of the time."

"This is a subject I'm interested in," Leno said. "I watched the movie industry get decimated, everybody moved out of California [because] they charged so much for film. Everybody went to Texas, Georgia, Atlanta."

He explained that the Golden State has the "hot rod culture," which draws all of the creatives in design studios from around the world. "Toyota, Nissan...Hyundai, they have design studios in California because this is where the new ideas come from."

Leno said that saddened him "to see all of these ideas leave, and go to Texas and all of these other places because it's easier to do business," adding that he "doesn't want to see the hot rod or the mechanical interests leave California the way the film business did."

Happily, on Thursday, the bill passed out of committee on a 12-2 bipartisan vote (with one vote not recorded). It now heads to the Committee on Appropriations for consideration.

Leno celebrated the victory in a statement: “California helped invent car culture—from lowriders in East L.A. to muscle cars in the Central Valley. These cars tell the story,” he said. “SB 712 is about keeping that story alive. These vehicles are driven occasionally, not daily, and it just makes sense to treat them differently. I’m proud to be working with Senator Grove, and I thank the committee for recognizing the importance of preserving our automotive legacy.”

Good for him. With so many celebrities using their names and platforms to push crazy/bad ideas and bolster their cred with leftists, it's great to see a sane famous person--one who is willing to stand up for something that will truly help others.

Editor's Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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Brie Larson Biography, Height, Age, Family, Boyfriend, Net Worth and Career

Brie Larson full name is Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers. She was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California, U.S.A. Brie Larson is an American actress and filmmaker she is well-known for playing Carol Danvers in the Captain Marvel films. She is regarded as one of the greatest performers of our time, having won multiple awards, including a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award for Best Actress. Instead, she made her breakthrough in 2013 with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent drama Short Term and in 2015 with a popular drama called Room. Her first big-budget release was an adventure movie in 2017 called Kong: Skull Island.

Who is Brie Larson?

Brie Larson real name is Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, is a multi-talented American director, singer-songwriter, and actress. She was born in Sacramento, California, on October 1, 1989, and has since become one of Hollywood's most gifted and adaptable celebrities. What has made Brie Larson most well-known? She portrayed Joy in the drama movie Room that same year. She received an Academy Award for her subtle and powerful portrayal of a young woman who has been abducted and imprisoned by a sexual predator in the independent film Room (2015). For the same film, she went on to win a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Her first feature film, Unicorn Store, was directed by her in 2017.

Brie Larson Wiki

Brie Larson full name is Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers. She was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California, U.S.A Brie is an American actress and filmmaker she is well-known for playing Carol Danvers in the Captain Marvel films. She is an American singer, composer, and actor who goes by Brie. Before attending the American Conservatory Theatre to study acting, Larson was born in Sacramento, California. In 2001, she made her television acting debut as a character on the sitcom Raising Dad, for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination. As a teenager, Larson starred in the short-lived films Sleepover and 13 Going on 30 in 2004. She debuted on television at the age of eight, appearing in sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). In 1999, she made her big-screen debut as Little Angel in the romantic comedy Special Delivery. After receiving praise for her performance in the comedy Hoot (2006), she went on to play supporting parts in Greenberg (2010),Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The role of Grace Howard in the drama film Short Term 12 (2013) was Brie's breakthrough performance. 2005 saw the release of her debut album, "Finally Out of P.E." She directed her first feature film, the fantasy comedy Unicorn Store (2017), in which she also played Kit. Real NameBrianne Sidonie DesaulniersProfessionActress, FilmmakerAge 35 YearsDate of Birth1 October, 1989BirthplaceSacramento, California, United StatesZodiac signLibraNationalityAmericanHometownSacramento, California, United StatesCollegeAmerican Conservatory TheaterQualificationGraduateDebutFilm:- Hoot (2006)  Television - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1998)ReligionChristianityHobbiesDancing, Cooking Brie Larson Early Life Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California. Growing up with her sister, Brie spoke French and was raised by parents who were both chiropractors. She claims that being homeschooled for the majority of her childhood influenced her creative abilities. She began writing her own screenplays and preparing for a future in acting at the age of six. She became the youngest person ever to be admitted to the American Conservatory Theater when she was six years old. Brie moved to Los Angeles with her mother and sister after her parents divorced when she was seven years old. According to Brie, they were in a very bad financial situation in California and only owned three pieces of clothing each. Brie Larson Age Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on October 1, 1989, in Sacramento, California. Brie is 35 years old as of 2024. Brie Larson Height and Weight

Brie Larson is a stunning actress who exudes optimism and confidence. She is 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m) tall, weighs 58 kg (128 lbs), and has an hourglass body type with measurements of 34-26-35 inches (bra/breast size 32B, waist 26 inches, and hips 35 inches). In reaction to her brown eyes, she has curly blonde hair. Heightin centimeters- 170 cm in meters- 1.70 m in Feet Inches- 5′ 7”Weightin kilograms– 58 kg in pounds– 128 lbsFigure Measurements34-26-35Bra/Breast Size34B InchesWaist Size26 InchesHip Size35 InchesEye ColorLight BrownHair ColorBlonde Brie Larson Education The majority of Brie education was at home, which allowed her to experiment with novel and abstract experiences. She enrolled in the esteemed American Conservatory Theater's training program at the age of six, making history as the youngest student to be accepted. There, she took drama and filmmaking classes. Education QualificationAmerican Conservatory TheaterSchoolHome SchoolCollege / UniversityNot Known

Brie Larson Family

Brie Larson Mother Sylvain and father Heather welcomed Brie into the Desaulnier family's home. Her name was Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers when she was born. Her parents co-owned a homeopathic chiropractic practice. Milaine is her sister and sibling. FatherSylvain DesaulniersMotherHeather DesaulniersBrotherWill updateSisterMilaine Brie Larson Relationship

Brie Larson first relationship started in 2006 when she started dating Cody Linley. At the time, Cody was the male lead on the television program "Hannah Montana." Since they were both teenagers at the time, they split up a year later. After that, Brie started dating John Patrick Amedori, but the two of them split up after three years. She met Alex Greenwald in 2013, and the two fell in love. They are frequently spotted together in public settings. The couple got engaged in May 2016, but they were unable to stay together for very long, as they split up in 2019. Larson began dating Elijah Allan-Blitz in 2019, and the two have been living together happily ever since. Marital StatusEngagedPartnerAlex GreenwaldBoyfriends/ AffairsAlex Greenwald Favorites Thing Favorite ColourPinkFavorite ActorTom CruiseFavorite ActressJennifer AnistonFavorite FoodSea Food, LasagnaHobbiesReading, WritingFavorite MusicianMadonna, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Clash, Matchbox TwentyFavorite MoviesCaptain MarvelFavorite PetBulldogFavorite AuthorAyn Rand (Author)Favorite DestinationMiamiSexual OrientationStraight Brie Larson Facts About

- She changed her name to Larson because her real name is hard to pronounce. - In an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, she made her television debut as a Barbie in "Malibu Mudslide Barbie." - She has participated in numerous song productions and music tours because she enjoys music as well. - Brie was upset by the father-daughter confrontation scene in the film Rampart. - Captain Marvel Brie trained in wrestling, judo, and boxing to play the role of hero. - The first superhero movie with a female focus to earn $1 billion is Captain Marvel. - There will be a follow-up to Captain Marvel. - Larson is active on social media and consistently shares positive thoughts that she has written herself. - Madame Tussauds New York has a single wax figure of Brie dressed as Captain Marvel. - In 2016 and 2019, Brie also appeared in the annual Beauty List magazine.

Brie Larson Career

Brie Larson began her television acting career in 1998 with the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She has also appeared in numerous guest spots on other TV series and in commercials. In 2006, Larson appeared in supporting roles in the movie Hoot. She went on to play supporting parts in movies like 21 Jump Street (2012) and Cott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). After that, Larson made numerous supporting appearances on television shows, including Ghost Whisperer (2008), Hope & Faith (2003), and Popular (1999). In 2013, Larson landed a breakthrough role for Short Term 12 and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for it. 2015 saw Larson take home a Best Actress award for Room. Television Shows (Actress):Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1998)Film (Actress):Hoot (2006) Breakthrough Roles She began performing in the United States of Tara drama in 2009 as a teenage girl named Kate Gregson. Because of the role she played, she got a lot of positive reviews. She later joined Just Peck and House Broken. She also starred in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a cult movie. In Rampart, she portrayed Woody Harrelson's daughter. Because it depicted the dynamics of a father-daughter relationship, Brie developed an emotional attachment to the character. Success Achievement

Brie Larson was given the opportunity to play Captain Marvel after a period of rest and a number of film appearances. Carol Danvers is the character's name. Brie accepted the high-profile role despite her reservations because it was designed to empower young women. Among the highest-grossing movies ever made is this one. Acting And Musical Career She also gained popularity after starring in the critically acclaimed drama "Room," which was adapted from Emma Donoghue's book of the same name, in 2015. Her portrayal of a kidnapping victim in the film earned her numerous accolades, including the Academy Award, Critic's Choice Award, Bafta Award, Golden Globe Award, Canadian Screen Award, and SAG Award for Best Actress. 2019 will see the release of the film of the same name, in which Larson will premiere. Brie has cultivated an ever-expanding musical career in addition to her acting abilities. Tommy Motalla signed her sight-unseen and gave Brie her first record deal at Universal Records. Following her initial release in 2005, she embarked on a concert tour across the country. YearName Of The TitleAlbum2004She SaidFinally Out of P.E.2005Life After YouFinally Out of P.E. Music Videos YearName Of The VideoPerformer2005She SaidBrie 2005Hope Has WingsBrie2008Junk FoodLexicon2012Never EnoughJJAMZ2014Just One of the GuysJenny Lewis2015No Cities to LoveSleater-Kinney2017Family FeudJay-Z Filmography Brie Larson has acted in many popular films and television shows, playing a variety of roles. She is best known for her role as Carol Danvers, also known as Captain Marvel, in the superhero movie Captain Marvel from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The following highlights some of Larson's most important films:

Films

YearFilm NameRole Name2001MadisonRacing Girl No. 2200413 Going on 30Six Chick2004SleepoverLiz Daniels2006HootBeatrice Leep2007Farce of the PenguinsI Need a Z-Pack Penguin2007Remember the DazeAngie2008The BabysitterBabysitter2009House BrokenSuzy Decker2009Just PeckEmily2009Tanner HallKate2010GreenbergSara2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldNatalie "Envy" Adams2011RampartHelen201221 Jump StreetMolly Tracey2012The Trouble with BlissStephanie Jouseski2012The Arm-2013Bitter OrangeMyrtle2013Don JonMonica Martello2013Short Term 12Grace2013WeightingUnnamed2013The Spectacular NowCassidy2014The GamblerAmy Phillips2015Digging for FireMax2015TrainwreckKim Townsend2015RoomJoy "Ma" Newsome2016Free FireJustine2017Kong: Skull IslandMason Weaver2017The Glass CastleJeannette Walls2017Unicorn StoreKit2017Basmati BluesLinda2019Captain MarvelCarol Danvers / Captain Marvel2019Avengers: EndgameCarol Danvers / Captain Marvel2019Just MercyEva Ansley2019Between Two Ferns: The MovieHerself2019Fantastic FungiNarrator2021RememberingThe Writer / Light2021Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsCarol Danvers / Captain Marvel2023Fast XTess2023The MarvelsCarol Danvers / Captain Marvel 2015–2019: Well-known Films In 2015, Larson released three films. She made her debut in the mostly improvised ensemble comedy-drama Digging for Fire, which starred Jake Johnson. Larson made a number of decisions about her character's decisions while filming without a script, such as eliminating a planned romantic subplot involving her and Johnson. She then appeared in the comedy Trainwreck, which was based loosely on the life of Amy Schumer, as Schumer's sister. Schumer's sister was an associate producer on the movie, and Larson based her role on her. The movie was described as "a deft blend of laughs, romance, and poignancy" by Tim Grierson of Screen International, who also thought Larson was "lively, slightly underused." Trainwreck made more than $140 million. yearName Of The AlbumTitle2006HootComing Around2015RoomBig Rock Candy Mountain2018Basmati BluesAll Signs Point to Yes2018Basmati BluesWhen Tomorrow Comes2018Basmati BluesLove Don't Knock at My Door2018Basmati BluesAll in My Mind2018Basmati BluesFoolish Heart2018Basmati BluesOur Voices Will Be Heard2021Scott Pilgrim vs. Read the full article

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Besouro - The Assailant (2009)

Director - João Daniel Tikhomiroff, Cinematography - Enrique Chediak

"As long as you give the vulture the right meat, it opens the beak."

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California Proposition Assessment

1. “English Proficiency. Multilingual Education. Initiative Statute” or proposition 58 from 2016

2. Prop 58 aimed to “[preserve the] requirement that public schools ensure students become proficient in English”. Because prop 58 passed, students with limited English proficiency have the ability to learn English through their school district which is beneficial for their future and all in the community. 

3. There is no notable fiscal effect on school districts nor state government.

4. The election results of Prop 58, of 2016, did surprise me as 73.52%  of persons voted yes on prop 58

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Proposition 58 Sponsors: 

-Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-33)

-Sen. Loni Hancock (D-9)

-Sen. Bill Monning (D-17)

-Sen. Martin Block (D-39)

-Asm. Nancy Skinner (D-15)

-Asm. Lorena Gonzalez (D-80)

-Gov. Jerry Brown (D)[6]

-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)

-State Superintendent Tom Torlakson

-Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D)

-State Controller Betty Yee (D)

-Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones (D)

-U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-27)

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-39)

U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-47)

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-28)

Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-24)

Sen. Ben Allen (D-26)

Sen. Jim Beall (D-15)

Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-19)

Sen. Isadore Hall (D-35)

Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-22)

Sen. Jerry Hill (D-13)

Sen. Mark Leno (D-11)

Sen. Connie Leyva (D-20)

Sen. Carol Liu (D-25)

Sen. Mike McGuire (D-2)

Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-32)

Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-30)

Sen. Richard Pan (D-6)

Sen. Fran Pavley (D-27)

Sen. Richard Roth (D-31)

Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-10)

Sen. Lois Wolk (D-3)

Asm. Anthony Rendon (D-63)

Asm. Luis Alejo (D-30)

Asm. Rob Bonta (D-18)

Asm. Ian Calderon (D-57)

Asm. Nora Campos (D-27)

Asm. David Chiu (D-17)

Asm. Kansen Chu (D-25)

Asm. Cristina Garcia (D-58)

Asm. Eduardo Garcia (D-56)

Asm. Jimmy Gomez (D-51)

Asm. Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-59)

Asm. Kevin McCarty (D-7)

Asm. Miguel Santiago (D-53)

Asm. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-13)

Asm. Tony Thurmond (D-15)

Asm. Das Williams (D-37)

Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco

Mayor Bao Nguyen, Garden Grove

Mayor Robert Garcia, Long Beach

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-California Democratic Party[7]

-Green Party of California[8]

-California Peace and Freedom Party[9]

-Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club[10]

-Santa Monica Democratic Club[11]

Interest group endorsements:

N/A

-Financial Backers: 

-California Teachers Association PAC~$1,722,048.00

-SEIU Local 2015 Issues PAC~$104,833.18

-California Federation of Teachers COPE Prop/ Ballot Committee~$100,000.00

-Association of California School Administrators Issues PAC~$100,000.00

-SEIU California State Council~$100,000.00

I was unfortunately unable to find/locate the endorsements although the financial backets are quite understandable as they consist of teachers' organizations/committees or are mostly education related. By understanding the financial backers it is clear what this props aimed demographic is.

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Arguments for Prop 58

“PROPOSITION 58 ENSURES ALL STUDENTS CAN ACHIEVE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.”

“Too many California students are being left behind and not given the opportunity to learn English with the most effective teaching methods possible. This is because of an outdated nearly 20-year-old law, Proposition 227, which restricts the instructional methods school districts can use to teach English.Proposition 58 revises Proposition 227 to remove these restrictions so schools are able to use the most up-to-date teaching methods possible to help our students learn.”

Requires local school districts to identify in their annual K-12 Local Control and Accountability Plans the instructional methods they will offer to help ensure all students become proficient in English as rapidly as possible.

Requires schools to offer a structured English immersion program to English learners. But schools also can adopt other language instruction methods based on research and stakeholder input.

School districts must seek input from educators, parents and the community.

“PROPOSITION 58 ALSO EXPANDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS TO LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE.”

Proposition 58 removes barriers hurting students by discouraging schools from expanding multilingual education. Proposition 58 encourages school districts to provide instruction programs so native English speakers can become proficient in a second language:

School districts must include in their annual K-12 Local Control and Accountability Plans programs giving English-speaking students the opportunity to achieve proficiency in a second language.

District choices of non-English languages must reflect input from parents, the community and the linguistic and financial resources of schools.

Research shows that students participating in programs taught in more than one language attain higher levels of academic achievement.

PROPOSITION 58 RESTORES LOCAL CONTROL TO OUR SCHOOLS.

Proposition 58 allows local school districts to choose the most up-to-date language instruction methods to improve student outcomes free from legal restrictions imposed on them by a decades-old law.

PROPOSITION 58 PROVIDES A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR STATE.

The world economy is changing rapidly. Today, technology allows even the smallest businesses to have a global reach. Students proficient in English and a second language will be more employable, start out earning higher wages, and make California's workforce better prepared to compete for jobs in the global economy.

PROPOSITION 58 HAS BROAD-BASED SUPPORT FROM LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, EDUCATORS, PARENTS AND EMPLOYERS.

Giving local schools the tools they need to improve outcomes for students is not a partisan or political issue. Proposition 58 was placed on the ballot by a bipartisan vote of the legislature. Support for Proposition 58's common sense reforms to improve language instruction in our schools is broad-based and includes: Local school boards (the California School Boards Association), Teachers (the California Language Teachers' Association, the California Teachers Association, the California Federation of Teachers), Parents (California State PTA), and Employers (including the San Jose I Silicon Valley and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce).

Proposition 58's reforms allow schools to adopt the most up-to-date methods of language instruction to improve student outcomes and make better use of taxpayer dollars

Arguments against Prop 58

“THIS BALLOT MEASURE IS A DISHONEST TRICK BY THE SACRAMENTO POLITICIANS”

The official title of Proposition 58 is "English Language Education," But it actually REPEALS the requirement the children be taught English in California public schools. It's all a trick by the Sacramento politicians to fool the voters, who overwhelmingly passed Proposition 227, the "English for the Children" initiative in 1998.

The worst part of Proposition 58 is hidden away in Section 8, which REPEALS all restrictions on the California Legislature to make future changes. This would allow the Legislature to reestablish SPANISH-ALMOST-ONLY instruction in the public schools by a simple majority vote, once again forcing Latino children into those classes against their parents' wishes.

Teaching English in our public schools is overwhelmingly supported by California parents, whether immigrants or non-immigrants, Latinos or Anglos, Asians or Blacks. That's why the politicians are trying to TRICK the voters by using a DECEPTIVE TITLE.

“VOTE NO AND KEEP "ENGLISH FOR THE CHILDREN"---IT WORKS!”

For decades, millions of Latino children were FORCED INTO SPANISH-ALMOST-ONLY CLASSES dishonestly called "bilingual education." It was an educational disaster and never worked. Many Latinos never learned how to read, write, or even speak English properly.

But in 1998, California voters overwhelmingly passed Prop. 227—the "English for the Children" initiative---providing sheltered English immersion to immigrant students and requiring that they be taught English as soon as they started school.

Jaime Escalante of Stand and Deliver fame, one of America's most successful teachers led the Prop. 227 campaign as Honorary Chairman, rescuing California Latinos from the Spanish-only educational ghetto.

It worked! Within four years the test scores of over a million immigrant students in California increased by 30%, 50%, or even 100%.

All the major newspapers, even the national New York Times, declared the new English immersion system a huge educational success.

The founding president of the California Association of Bilingual Educators announced that he'd been wrong about bilingual education for thirty years and became a leading national advocate for English immersion.

Since "English for the Children" passed, there has been a huge increase in the number of Latinos scoring high enough to gain admission to the prestigious University of California system.

Prop. 227 worked so well in California schools that the whole issue was forgotten by almost everyone except the bilingual education activists. Now they're trying to trick the voters into allowing the RESTORATION OF MANDATORY SPANISH-ALMOST-ONLY CLASSES.

7. I would’ve voted YES on prop 58 as I believe a foundational understanding of English is important and necessary young Americans.

8. I found it interesting that the Libertarian Party of California were opponents of Prop 58.

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Brie Larson is part of the courtroom gallery nervously awaiting the decision in Just Mercy (2019).  Brie was born in Sacramento and has 62 acting credits, from two episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as a nine year old girl scout, her first feature in 1999, to 2019.  Her other notable credits include an episode of Touched by an Angel, 13 Going on 30, 36 episodes of The United States of Tara, 21 Jump Street, The Spectacular Now, Don Jon, Short Term 12, Trainwreck, Captain Marvel, and Avengers:  Endgame,  Brie is an Oscar winner for Room.

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Leno Sacramento do Bando de Teatro Olodum é baleado em abordagem policial no Centro

O ator Leno Sacramento do Bando de Teatro Olodum é baleado em abordagem policial no Centro, passando de bicicleta com um amigo pela Avenida Sete de Setembro, perto do Forte de São Pedro, por volta das 16h, quando foi abordado por policiais civis, que estavam à paisana e ordenaram que o ator e o amigo parassem atirando antes que eles esboçassem reação. Um amigo apontou que ele não tinha ouvido a ordem do policial.

Uma testemunha, que não quis se identificar, disse à reportagem do CORREIO que eram quatro policiais ao todo e eles passaram em uma viatura ao lado da bicicleta em baixa velocidade.

“Eu só vi a confusão e a zoada de tiro. Todo mundo começou a gritar. O homem estava sem camisa, mas não parecia que ia reagir. Quando o policial atirou, ele (Leno), já com a perna ferida, levantou, botou as mãos pra cima e começou a gritar: ‘Eu não sou ladrão, eu não sou ladrão'”, relatou.

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                                                  APRIL                      2019

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***** The Rolling Stones have cancelled their North American tour. Mick Jagger apologized for cancelling due to undisclosed medical treatments.  Oh Baby, Get Well Soon!!!!

***** Mick and his squeeze, Melanie Hamrick have put together a ballet set to Stones music called Porte Rouge. After premiering in Russia it will come to NY on April 18 for an opening night charity event to benefit Youth America Grand Prix.  Tickets start at $600.

***** Tina Fey and Carol Burnett  are working on a movie about Carol’s book, Carrie and me: A Mother –Daughter love story.

***** When I hear Bernie Sanders going on, I can’t help but think of Jimmy Carter. He was pushing many of these messages in the seventies. He tried to get us to have more respect for the land and to save energy and the greedy wrote him off as boring and the era of greed took over. Will we listen this time?

***** The Mueller report was finally turned over to Attorney General William Barr. This has started a whole new set of problems. Barr gives us a summary that is like springtime for Trump. He jumps right in to those that done him wrong and FISA warrants. Should congress get a look at the full report? Everyone is talking over each other and don’t seem to hear what the other is saying. Everybody piles on Adam Schiff because they think he isn’t accepting the report like a good Dem should. If they would listen, he makes it very clear that he respects the findings but they need to see the report. How dare they ask HIM to resign as Intel committee chair. It was heartwarming to see his backbone. They must quit backing down. We still don’t have the whole story but he still free to say that he thinks the actions we already know of were wrong. What the hell is wrong with that? Barr is supposed to release the heavily redacted report in mid- April. No collusion? Perhaps, Scary Clown 45 would probably not get his hands dirty. Obstruction? We’ll see. ** Tyler Mcgaughey, William Barrs son in law will now advise Trump and the White House staff. ** I am really sick of listening to the old white man POV.

***** Dow chemical has donated a mil to Trump’s campaign. Strange that Trump has blocked a report  that took years of research and shows proof of Dow toxic pesticides which jeopardizes over 1,200 endangered species.

***** US from Jordan Peele opened to 70.3 mil. Just like his last movie, critics tell us to watch it twice. How great for the bottom line.

***** John McCarty, a dead man is running for village President in Spring Bay, Il.

***** Look out for the new film, The Kid, directed by Vincent D’onofrio. The western stars Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Hawk , D’onofrio , MorningStar Angeline and Leila George.

***** Did you ever see the reunion movie ‘Return to Green Acres? ‘  They tried to warn us of who Trump was a long time ago. How strange that it came full circle with that ridic Emmy Green Acres thing he did.

***** Shaq has become a deputy sheriff and has also been added to the board of directors of Papa John’s where he is an investor.

***** In sexual harassment news, Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman has accused Joe Biden of unwanted touching and kissing at a 2014 campaign event.

***** Mark Hamill will voice the Chucky doll in the new Child’s Play.

***** Law and Order will get its 21st season.

***** The daytime Emmy noms have been announced and Days got the most this year. WOO HOO! The soap was nominated for drama, writing, costume, music, casting, art direction and oh, just everything. In the acting category the lead noms are Marci Miller, Tyler Christopher and Billy Flynn.  Kate Mansi was noticed for a guest spot as Abigail so 2 actresses are up for Emmys in the same role. Other guest noms went to Thaao Penghlis and Philip Anthony Rodriguez. Kassie Depaiva, Linsey Godfrey (really?), Martha Madison, Greg Rikaart and Eric Martsolf were all nominated.  Younger actor nods went to Olivia Rose Keegan, Lucas Adams, Victoria Konefal and Kyler Pettis.  C’mon , why nothing for Lauren Koslow, Greg Vaughan, Casey Moss, Susan Seaforth Hayes and Robert Scott Wilson?? I think I would switch a few of these around but it is still great to see Days so blessed.  I was also happy to see Max Gail from GH get noticed. CBS led the networks in noms. Hooray for Wayne Brady for game show host and Mark Hamill, Ruth Negga and Steve Buscemi in animated programs. Watch for the Daytime Emmys on May 5 which will not be on television again.

***** General Robert Neller has told the Pentagon that funds diverted to the wall are keeping Marines from rebuilding hurricane hit bases.

***** Devin Nunes is suing Twitter for the parody accounts, Devin Nunes Mom and Dvin Nunes cow which is pretty funny.

***** The EU is banning straw, cotton swabs and plastic cutlery by 2021.

***** Jenny McCarthy has a book out that slams The View.

***** Roseanne is thinking about suing ABC and has said some rather nasty stuff about Sara Gilbert.

***** Michael Avenatti was arrested for trying to extort $20 mil from Nike in NY. He claims he was just doing some lawyering.  California has him on bank fraud charges.  Why is there so much shadiness in this world? Let’s start rewarding the people doing good in this world and quit talking these headlines everyday.

***** Why did this Jussie Smollett thing go away?

***** Wal Mart is walking back this getting rid of the elderly and handicapped greeter thing.

***** Tracy Morgan and Will Forte are to star in the new animated Scooby Doo movie.

***** Johnny Depp has sued ex Amber Heard over the abuse allegations.

***** Martha Stewart is diving into the Marijuana product industry.

***** New York charges Manafort with 16 crimes. Perhaps he won’t get off as lightly with the state crimes.

***** Season 9 of American Horror Story has no premiere date yet. Emma Roberts is confirmed to return. It looks like it will also include Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and silver medalist Gus Kenworthy.

***** New California Gov. Gavin Newsom has halted executions for now.

***** Dems will hold their convention in Milwaukee. And if I hear again that Hillary didn’t go to these sorts of places, I am gonna puke. She went! She went! Just not so much at the end.

***** Howard Stern will release his first book in 20 years this May.

***** Ok, so glad to see Whoopie Goldberg is starting to get back to work but it is just so unbelievable in this day and age and access to info that she seemed shocked that the insurance companies decide people’s fate. Of course, that is if you are lucky enough to have insurance.

***** Sandy Hook families can take lawsuits against the gun companies to court now.** Three suicides have recently come from survivors and a parent of Parkland and Sandy Hook. The pain goes on.

***** The Senate voted 59-41 to terminate the emergency declaration. VETO

***** Rick Singer, founder if a college prep business had pled guilty to money laundering, obstruction of justice and racketeering. The nationwide college entrance exam scandal involves about 50 people including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin that dates back to 2011. People paid millions to use ringers to take or fix their children’s exams and sometimes faked photos with coaches to include them in sports they were never involved in. The U.S. attorney does not believe the schools themselves were involved. **Lawsuits have already begun from those claiming they could not get into a good college because those spots were taken by these alleged cheaters.

***** Jennifer Hudson will play Aretha Franklin in the biopic.

***** Experts say a recession is on the horizon.

***** Two Sacramento police officers will face no charges for their overkill of the unarmed Stephon Clark. Oh Big surprise!!

***** White supremacist groups on line are growing faster than ISIS. ** I never get it, if white supremacists are so supreme, so wonderful, wouldn’t they rise to the top naturally? Why do they need to rid the world of others or keep minorities down?? If they think others are so inferior, those they hate or fear should not be a problem .

***** Jeanine Pirro was pulled off Fox news after a racist rant about Muslims. ** And where is Rudy? The lawyer hasn’t been seen on the air since January. ** Is this true? Did Ivanka and Jared really try to resign? Did Scary Clown 45 try to push them into it and then not accept those resignations?

***** This can’t be true. Only 5 states have laws requiring patient consent for medical students to do vaginal exams on women under sedation.

***** I rarely think about Jay Leno but he was right about the late night comics all doing different versions of the same joke.  But, who is he to talk? I mean how many different things did you do on OJ and Clinton?? At least these guys are funny.

***** The talk that people stay in their bubble becomes crystal clear when you see the poll asking if the President is truthful: Fox viewers : 84%, MSNBC viewers : 21% and CNN viewers: 1%. Whoa!

***** Word is that Scary Clown ordered economic advisor Gary Cohn to pressure the Justice Department to file a lawsuit to block the Att-Time Warner merger to retaliate against CNN.

***** At least 250 power plants across the country are leaking toxic chemicals into nearby water.

***** Jay Inslee is running for president! I think Stacey Abrams and Jay Inslee would be a nice ticket>

***** Beta O’Rourke is running for President! The psychedelic warlord!

***** Kristen Gillibrand is running for President!

***** Conor McGregor was arrested and charged with felony strong armed robbery and criminal mischief in Miami.

***** The process is in the works to get Trumps tax returns.** The house Judiciary committee has requested 81 documents.** This can’t be true. Trump was signing Bibles for volunteers and survivors in Alabama??

***** Just when it can’t get any weirder: Li Yang and her hubby, Zubin Gong run a string of massage parlors with questionable reputations. Until recently they ran the one that Robert Kraft was busted in. They also had a web site that seemed to sell access to their buddy, Donald Trump with Chinese business contacts. As soon as the story broke, the sites for an international consulting firm, text only in Chinese and no prices for the meets came down. Li Yang and her associates are in pictures at the inauguration, the White House, Mar A Lago and Trump’s super bowl party with the Pres, his sons and other Trump family members. We should have seen this coming. The old adage that always holds true with this administration seems true here. They always blame others for what they are really guilty of, this explains the Pizzagate garbage. This could be bigger than we ever dreamed. Even stories that we may have thought a bit out there need to be looked at closer. Can we connect the sex trafficking, the White House, the money? It is time to quit fucking around with the sellers and customers of those exploited in the sex trade. I don’t get it, all these men from Trump to R Kelly have the power over the women they supposedly use and abuse and yet they are always so angry. Perhaps they wouldn’t be losing their power if you treated others with respect and dignity. They always want all the power for themselves. And c’mon media, stop talking your heads off about the Omar story and give this Li Yang story a closer look.

***** The story of the fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes is a sad one. It does show that greed and massive fraud are not just for the men of this world. When I first heard of her plans for the blood testing, I was so impressed with what she was accomplishing at her age. Yes, she was another poor little rich girl whose family fortune was quite diminished by the time it got to her. Even without the Fleischman yeast money, she did seem to have advantages. I can see how some of us were fooled but what about the big investors, the stalwart statesmen?  Do they not remember that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is? How can all the hype, the press, the marketing snowball before there is any proof that something is what is actually supposed to be?? I always assumed that by the time I am hearing about it, things are about ready to go. Seeing all these stories like Trump and Deutsche bank, light sentences for Manafort and now Holmes and her partner in crime seeming to get off lightly, there is not much hope for the little guy. WHY can’t we hold those involved in big money crimes really responsible??

***** It’s true, rich people cause socialism – Neal Brennan.

***** Even in 1692 the rich were different. –Stacy Schiff- The Witches.

***** FEMA released the personal data of 2.3 million victims.

***** They have dug up old words from Fox’s Tucker Carlson. Big surprise that he seemed to empathize with Warren Jeffs, thought women should just shut up and called a woman “cunty.”  The women who lap up the words of these men must not think much of themselves.

***** Why are we letting the banks finance detention centers and prisoners? It’s more than immigration or punishing criminals. Why is this big business?? I can’t believe this is still going on. Wake up!!! When will the children be free?  C’mon House and Senate, Pass the Shut Down child prison camps bill.

***** Somebody has to pay for this President’s folly: The scary clown new budget cuts:$ 1.5 trillion from Medicaid/ $845 billion from Medicare/ &25 billion from Social Security.

***** About 1 rural hospital a month is shutting down due to lack of support and lack of funds.

***** Globalization seems to be spreading a pathogen killing the olive trees in Italy.

***** A fake Melania?? WTF? UGH!

***** Matthew Whitaker is out! Bill Shine is out!

***** When will we ever be able to buy the boxed set of Late Night with Dave?? Hurry so the next generation can see the genius they may have missed.

***** Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale??

***** Hey Bill Maher, way to go with your PETA message about the terrible treatment of the geese used to make Canada Goose down jackets.  I will stay away!!

***** J Lo and A Rod are engaged.

***** Bette Midler and Judith Light will join the cast of The Politician.

***** Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 felony counts.

***** HBO’s Crashing was cancelled. Pete Holmes was great in this but I never really saw much promotion for it. I hate it when good stuff falls thru the cracks.

***** Kathy Griffin has a new film about the ridiculous Trump head, nearly career ending, Government harassment crap in her life. Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a story. Make that lemonade!! A girl has to take care of herself. It premiered at SXSW.** Speaking of SXSW, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez drew great crowds while she was there.

***** R Kelly lives in Trump tower in Chicago. Well, of course he does.  Why is it ok for the rest of us to put up with these arrogant, abusive males in this society? Everyone is giving kudos to Gayle King for her calm demeanor in her interview. Yes, how professional of her but why should she be subject to that disrespect??  She is in her workplace. Would R Kelly have liked his Mother or daughter to be treated that way?

***** So, word is that Isaiah 45 is a Trump thing with the evangelicals. This scripture refers to Cyrus , the anointed one. OY!

***** Days alert: Robin Strasser is coming OH BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** Judith Chapman and her old style soap acting just too much. ** C’mon Chloe and Rex!!** More Nurse Shelly!! ** Is Johnny Dimera on his way to town? ** I was so glad to see Tony, one of the best characters ever anywhere, even if it was part of an out of body experience.

***** Why do we have to keep talking about George and Kelly Ann Conway?? Are they just covering their bases? With one on each side of the Trump argument, they win no matter what happens right?

***** So now we know that about 400 Catholic clergy have been accused of sexual  misconduct in Illinois. It never ends.

***** End the electoral college!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

***** S

***** Fox has hired Donna Brazile. People seem to finally be taking Bill Maher’s advice and telling their point of view to the other side. How else will sanity prevail if we don’t find common ground? We cannot look to this administration for guidance in this world, we have to figure these things out for ourselves, which we should be able to do anyway.

***** Suicide is the second leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds.  We have to find our self- worth.  

R.I.P. Andy Anderson, Katherine Helmond, Nathaniel Taylor, Luke Perry, Alabama tornado victims, Jan Michael Vincent,  the Ethiopian airlines disaster victims, Hal Blaine, victims of the New Zealand Mosque shootings, Sydney Aiello, the Ogossogou village attack victims, Denise DuBarry, Larry Cohen, Jeremy Richman, Ray Sawyer, Tania Mallet and Nipsey Hussle.

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'Leno's Law': Talk show host headed to Sacramento in support of smog check exemption bill

(FOX40.COM) — A bill to eliminate smog checks for some classic cars is making its way through the legislature with the help of famous auto enthusiast Jay Leno. Collector motor vehicles that are at least 35 years old are currently exempt from portions of smog check tests but Assembly Bill 712, introduced by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), would do away with the requirement for the vehicles…

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  • A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, ‘Hey, both of those games went into overtime.’ – Conan O’Brien • A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP. – David Letterman • A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey. – Jay Leno • A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic. – Ameen Rihani • After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now – because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with. – Matthew Quick • All I’m saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don’t need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don’t need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents. – Billy Bob Thornton • All music is based on country music. And that’s why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South. – Loretta Lynn • All my life I’ve been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: “Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?” And so I went with them. Period. – Tom Hayden • All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It’s weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It’s completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: ‘Where are you from?’ And I would say, ‘Oh, I’m from London.’ – Robert Pattinson • All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou • Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law. – Chris Christie • And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I’ve been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I’m no different when I’m sitting with you than I am when I’m at home or anyplace else. – Chris Christie • And I’m sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from – New Jersey. • And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. – Donald Judd • Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone’s face. – Janet Evanovich • Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. – Godfried Danneels • As I climbed the electoral ladder – from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey – political compromises came easy to me because I’d learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. – James McGreevey

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'New+Jersey', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_new-jersey').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_new-jersey img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary ’cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you’d already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary. – Terry Gross • Because I can’t seem to escape it. It’s a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey. – Junot Diaz • Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I’m speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you’re just like Zimmerman. – Curtis Sliwa • Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west. – Alfred Kazin • By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. – Bob Menendez • Chris Christie is New Jersey’s concern, not America’s. – Henry Rollins • Chris Christie’s rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution. – Steve Kornacki • Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through. – Greg Giraldo • Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). – Bill Kraus • Come with me.” “Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received. – Cassandra Clare • Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. – Chris Christie • Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. – Charles Edison • Donald Trump didn’t know the [Democratic] vice presidential candidate he was running against: Tim Kaine [Senator] of Virginia, Donald! Not Thomas Kean, Republican [former Governor] of New Jersey, you moron! And his answer to absolutely every question is so simplistic and grand: “Oh, I’ll fix it. Trust me. I’m the best fixer. I love to fix!!! Look at everything I’ve fixed before!!!!”. – Chrissy Teigen • During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections. – Martin Scorsese • Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive. – Lester R. Brown • Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It’s called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the ’80s for About an Hour. He’s there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz’s ‘That’s the ticket’ guy. – Martin Short • Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey? – Jeff Smith • First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day’s march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. – Tim O’Brien • From the look on your face, I’d say you know him.” I nodded. “Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school.” Connie grunted. “Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli – Janet Evanovich • From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. – Robert Smithson • Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. – Chris Christie • Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth’s great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. – Godfried Danneels • Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism! – Jonah • Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois… we moved 21 times in my first 17 years. – J. Michael Straczynski • Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world. – James Lecesne • Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. – Jon Bon Jovi • Hillary Clinton’s younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons’ political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey. – Jimmy Fallon • his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl’s on homecoming night. Percy Jackson. – Rick Riordan • Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. – Weegee • Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from ‘be afraid’ to ‘be very afraid,’ raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. … Ridge’s announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family. – Jon Stewart • I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I’m going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who’s going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen. – Chris Christie • I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I’ve never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it’s Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey. – Dave Barry • I also love horseback riding in New Jersey. – Eva Herzigova • I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the “Housewives.” I am a huge fan of “New Jersey.” – NeNe Leakes • I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. – Fran Lebowitz • I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school … Technical high school, that’s where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, “You can do anything you want.” Their whole lives. “You can do anything!” But this place, we take kids – they’re 15, they’re young – and we tell them, “You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.” – Louis C. K. • I don’t get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody. – Eugene Ormandy • I don’t have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I’m a zoo person. There’s one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys – I used to give them bubblegum to chew. – Missy Elliot • I feel like if you’re in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan. – Kevin Smith • I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning – I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that’s all I do, but I’m very much a part of that congregation. We’ve got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you’ve got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They’re able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that’s a real step forward. – John Shelby Spong • I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn’t very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. – Joe Dante • I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty. – Buzz Aldrin • I grew up in New Jersey in the ’80s. That means one thing: Big hair. … I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show. – Jancee Dunn • I grew up in northern New Jersey – the banlieue of New York – and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day. – Jonathan Ames • I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children’s theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn’t fit in. – Jesse Eisenberg • I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier – I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it. – Piper Perabo • I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it’s both. It seems like I’m always leaving my home. That’s part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time. – Junot Diaz • I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don’t hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. – Mikhail Baryshnikov • I just know what it’s like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey. – Ray Liotta • I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. – Fetty Wap • I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school. – Melissa Rauch • I know California isn’t a real destination. You can’t get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It’s about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had. – Kate Braverman • I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. – John Forbes Nash • I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn’t do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack. – Geraldo Rivera • I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too – Paul Muldoon • I love music. I’ve just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be. – Queen Latifah • I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn’t that great? – Joel McHale • I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery. – Emily Remler • I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we’re going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. – Chris Christie • I should call myself four market Norton. I’m great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey. – Jim Norton • I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it’s that same fear. – Bill Burr • I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like – the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way. – John Lloyd Young • I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein’s house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton – a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn’t live in. I’d always say, “That was Albert Einstein’s house.” And they’d say, “What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?” And I’d always say to people, “Because he didn’t care!” – Fran Lebowitz • I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey. – Jon Corzine • I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump. – Tom Perrotta • I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn’t get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then… the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball. – Monte Irvin • I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. – George R. R. Martin • I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. – Daisy Fuentes • I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. – Bernie Worrell • I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. – Jon Stewart • I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. – Ice T • I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year – depending on the breaks. – J. Michael Straczynski • I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don’t know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese. – Paul Auster • I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. – Joe Tex • I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey. – Joe Kyrillos • I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places. – DeForest Soaries • I went home every night to New Jersey – or most nights – and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn’t have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time. – Kellyanne Conway • I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don’t even want to know what I sounded like back then! – Odeya Rush • I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know? – Stacey Dash • I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-’70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. – Feisal Abdul Rauf • I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge. – Cassandra Clare • I’d literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday’s in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers. – Patrick Carney • If I had the choice now, I’d make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won’t do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we’re making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens. – Chris Christie • If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey… then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life. – Al Sharpton • If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. – Dennis Miller • If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it’s pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it’s going to be as strong 20 years from now? – Dannel Malloy • If you were back in the Cretaceous Period – the last of the time of the dinosaurs – and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water. – Kenneth Lacovara • If you’re Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues. – Amy Walter • If you’re from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don’t let anyone know how great it is here. It’s the best kept secret. – Jon Bon Jovi • If you’re in the contracting business in this country, you’re suspect. If you’re in the contracting business in New Jersey, you’re indictable. If you’re in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you’re convicted. – Raymond J. Donovan • I’m a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher’s union. – Chris Christie • I’m a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. – Treat Williams • I’m from New Jersey / I don’t expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust. – John Gorka • I’m from the dirty depths of New Jersey. – Ezra Miller • I’m here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey. – George Pataki • I’m just this Dominican kid from New Jersey. – Junot Diaz • I’m Palestinian, I’m disabled, I’m female and I live in New Jersey. – Maysoon Zayid • Immigrating didn’t burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There’s nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it’s like home is all those things combined. – Junot Diaz • In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. – Leslie Charteris • In dealing with Syria’s dictator…only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria’s proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus. – William Safire • In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years. – Chris Christie • In the end, all worlds, whether they’re set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don’t got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don’t get it twisted: you still got to do some work. – Junot Diaz • It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I’d feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-‘n’-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, “No, thanks,” and turn my head away. – George Carlin • It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys. – David Grisman • It was tough doing ‘Underneath the Lintel’ in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult. – Richard Schiff • It’s about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. – Cory Booker • It’s great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We’re both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods. – Jon Stewart • I’ve been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn’t that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I’m from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group. – Brittany Murphy • I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father. – Queen Latifah • I’ve never been one for sitting on beaches. Let me tell you who I am: I’m a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act. – Piper Perabo • I’ve travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people’s eyes I’ve visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it’s horrible. – Donald Trump • Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us. – Anna Quindlen • Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most notably the late William J. Brennan, who ushered in our nation’s recommitment to civil rights in the latter half of the 20th century. – Frank Lautenberg • Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it’s clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused. – Louis Caldera • Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything. – Kirsten Dunst • Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. – Michael Ian Black • Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today. – Kirsten Dunst • Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. – Tim Howard • Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. – Raymond Sokolov • Maybe because I’m from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear – I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I’d say to him, “Listen, Mr. President, there’s a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you.” And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now. – Chris Christie • Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. – Andrew Shue • Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife’s favorite – he’d driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head – Peter Terris wouldn’t cross the street to buy me a Twinkie. – Joan Bauer • My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci. – Diablo Cody • My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. – Anita Diament • My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, ‘How come I’m not in New York?’ That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it. – Anne Hathaway • My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. – Melissa Rauch • My goal was to make New Jersey’s state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government. – Charles Edison • My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree. – Samuel Alito • My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. – Junot Diaz • My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs. – Donald Fagen • New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas. – Richard Florida • New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It’s old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. – Junot Diaz • New Jersey gives us glue. – Howard Dietz • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He’s going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn’t a steak. – Jimmy Fallon • New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra. – Queen Latifah • New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call ‘a center’ or ‘the center of the universe,’ has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision. – Junot Diaz • New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, ‘black man loots house, steals white woman.’ – Bill Maher • New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who’s come from here will tell you that same story. – Jon Bon Jovi • New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives. – Ezra Miller • New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed. – Chris Christie • New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime. – Brandon Cruz • New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. – Fran Lebowitz • Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What’s now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don’t. – James Surowiecki • No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey. – Jon Stewart • Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he’s not doing good in Afghanistan either. – Jay Leno • Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I’ve been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That’s the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction. – Chris Christie • One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I’m from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl. – Naturi Naughton • One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience. – Mary Norris • One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don’t have out here in California is Rita’s Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good! – Joe Jonas • Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend’s home in the country, in New Jersey. – Eva Herzigova • Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up to, they only point out the exits you’ve just missed. – Neal Shusterman • Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back. – Jay Leno • People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. – Neil deGrasse Tyson • Philadelphia merely seems dull because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. – Robert Anton Wilson • Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It’s closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced. – Wiz Khalifa • Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake. – Amy Poehler • Quick, name some towns in New Jersey – James Thurber • Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else’s world. If it’s a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what’s going to happen to you there, what’ll be around the next corner. But if it’s a lousy book, then it’s like going through Secaucus, New Jersey — it smells and you wish you weren’t there, but since you’ve started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you’re done. – Jonathan Carroll • School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That’s why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food. – Richard Codey • Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That’s a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I’m very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed. – Buzz Aldrin • Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11. – Lawrence O’Donnell • Some of Buddhist texts say that, in the moment after you die, you think of New Jersey and you go to New Jersey or you think of 1820 and you go to 1820. Also, all your sort of inner-symbology gets writ large. So, if you’re a Christian, you see Christian iconography. – George Saunders • St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey. – Margot Leitman • The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band. – Steven Van Zandt • The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. – Woody Allen • The Democrats can’t lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, “Hey, if our candidate can’t go, sure you can put in a replacement.” – Rush Limbaugh • The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There’s no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home. – Cory Booker • The great thing about New Jersey is that it’s close to New York. – Fran Lebowitz • The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol • The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me. – Ilya Kovalchuk • The only time I’ve ever been mistaken for someone else is – and this arguable still – when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, “You look a lot like that guy from computer ads” and I said, “There is a reason because I am that guy,” and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, “That’s a funny joke, but you really do look like him.” He thought I was not me. – John Hodgman • The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country – very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people. – Amos Oz • The President’s biggest problem right now is he’s gotta tell the truth. And we’ve seen this in New Jersey. I’ve told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn’t necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth. – Chris Christie • The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent. – Conan O’Brien • The state of New Jersey is really two places – terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It’s very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work. – Harlan Coben • The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics.” Connie Rosolli. – Janet Evanovich • The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it’s still going on, well I think it’s sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful. – Paul Weller • Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality. – Derek Luke • There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. – Kerry Bishe • There are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando. – Lester Holt • There’s a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It’s the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. – Jill Scott • These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. – Bill Vaughan • These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. – Chris Christie • This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me. – Ilya Kovalchuk • This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn’t work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: “Why didn’t it get done? Why didn’t you do it?” You have to be responsible and accountable. – Chris Christie • Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer. – Erma Bombeck • Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he’s endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It’s good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you’re in a canoe. – Jimmy Fallon • Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was ‘Planet Rock,’ and the other had no lyrics – it was called ‘Numbers,’ from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the ‘hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time. – Queen Latifah • Wait.” Clary was suddenly nervous. “The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something.” Maia snorted. “I’m from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge. – Cassandra Clare • We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It’s the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It’s definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It’s a great opportunity to have such an event. – Susan Ward • We need to have an education system in New Jersey and all over the country that makes all of our kids, either college or career ready. It should be their choice. I mean, every kid doesn’t want to go to college. But I think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential. – Chris Christie • We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students. – Thomas Kean, Jr. • We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it. – Chris Christie • Well, let’s put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. – Jason Alexander • We’re called New Jersey but we’re actually the suburbs of New York. – Harlan Coben • We’ve gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls “sissies.” You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist. – Rush Limbaugh • What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? – O. Henry • What I’d like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I’m negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians. – Donald Trump • When a new writer defends his “style,” the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn’t an artifice. Real style – voice – arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer’s character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation – an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example. – Bill Roorbach • When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra • When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I’ve been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey. – Chris Christie • When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots. – Sylvia Earle • When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons. – Nina Arianda • When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn’t have electricity. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr. • When I was in – at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was – that class still existed. I think it’s pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey. – Meryl Streep • When you say, ‘I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,’ people always say, ‘Oh, really?’ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‘A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.’ – Taylor Swift • Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, ‘It’s okay, I’m from New Jersey.’ I love New Jersey, because it’s not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in ‘Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I’m from New Jersey.’ – Paul Rudnick • Whenever spring comes to New York I can’t stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I’ve got to go. So I went. – Jack Kerouac • With our last album (“No Time To Bleed”), we recorded most of it in New Jersey. And with being on the road 9 months a year, recording an album on the other side of the country- it just wasn’t a good experience for us. All I wanted to do was go home and see my daughter, so for us to only be a couple hours away was huge- I could go home if I needed to. – Mitch Lucker • Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. – Sloane Crosley • Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I’m from New Jersey. – Paul Rudnick • You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something…I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That’s what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!’ – David Keirsey • You’d think New York people was all wise; but no, they can’t get a chance to learn. Every thing’s too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that’s shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? – O. Henry

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  • A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, ‘Hey, both of those games went into overtime.’ – Conan O’Brien • A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP. – David Letterman • A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey. – Jay Leno • A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic. – Ameen Rihani • After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now – because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with. – Matthew Quick • All I’m saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don’t need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don’t need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents. – Billy Bob Thornton • All music is based on country music. And that’s why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South. – Loretta Lynn • All my life I’ve been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: “Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?” And so I went with them. Period. – Tom Hayden • All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It’s weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It’s completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: ‘Where are you from?’ And I would say, ‘Oh, I’m from London.’ – Robert Pattinson • All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou • Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law. – Chris Christie • And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I’ve been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I’m no different when I’m sitting with you than I am when I’m at home or anyplace else. – Chris Christie • And I’m sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from – New Jersey. • And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. – Donald Judd • Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone’s face. – Janet Evanovich • Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. – Godfried Danneels • As I climbed the electoral ladder – from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey – political compromises came easy to me because I’d learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. – James McGreevey

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It’s a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey. – Junot Diaz • Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I’m speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you’re just like Zimmerman. – Curtis Sliwa • Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west. – Alfred Kazin • By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. – Bob Menendez • Chris Christie is New Jersey’s concern, not America’s. – Henry Rollins • Chris Christie’s rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution. – Steve Kornacki • Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through. – Greg Giraldo • Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). – Bill Kraus • Come with me.” “Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received. – Cassandra Clare • Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. – Chris Christie • Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. – Charles Edison • Donald Trump didn’t know the [Democratic] vice presidential candidate he was running against: Tim Kaine [Senator] of Virginia, Donald! Not Thomas Kean, Republican [former Governor] of New Jersey, you moron! And his answer to absolutely every question is so simplistic and grand: “Oh, I’ll fix it. Trust me. I’m the best fixer. I love to fix!!! Look at everything I’ve fixed before!!!!”. – Chrissy Teigen • During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections. – Martin Scorsese • Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive. – Lester R. Brown • Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It’s called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the ’80s for About an Hour. He’s there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz’s ‘That’s the ticket’ guy. – Martin Short • Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey? – Jeff Smith • First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day’s march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. – Tim O’Brien • From the look on your face, I’d say you know him.” I nodded. “Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school.” Connie grunted. “Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli – Janet Evanovich • From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. – Robert Smithson • Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. – Chris Christie • Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth’s great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. – Godfried Danneels • Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism! – Jonah • Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois… we moved 21 times in my first 17 years. – J. Michael Straczynski • Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world. – James Lecesne • Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. – Jon Bon Jovi • Hillary Clinton’s younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons’ political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey. – Jimmy Fallon • his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl’s on homecoming night. Percy Jackson. – Rick Riordan • Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. – Weegee • Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from ‘be afraid’ to ‘be very afraid,’ raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial sectors in New York, Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey. … Ridge’s announcement comes amidst reports he will step down as head of homeland security after the election. Ridge himself has refused to comment on the story, though colleagues say he has often expressed a desire to spend more time at home, scaring his family. – Jon Stewart • I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I’m going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who’s going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen. – Chris Christie • I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I’ve never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it’s Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey. – Dave Barry • I also love horseback riding in New Jersey. – Eva Herzigova • I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the “Housewives.” I am a huge fan of “New Jersey.” – NeNe Leakes • I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. – Fran Lebowitz • I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school … Technical high school, that’s where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, “You can do anything you want.” Their whole lives. “You can do anything!” But this place, we take kids – they’re 15, they’re young – and we tell them, “You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.” – Louis C. K. • I don’t get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody. – Eugene Ormandy • I don’t have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I’m a zoo person. There’s one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys – I used to give them bubblegum to chew. – Missy Elliot • I feel like if you’re in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan. – Kevin Smith • I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning – I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that’s all I do, but I’m very much a part of that congregation. We’ve got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you’ve got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They’re able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that’s a real step forward. – John Shelby Spong • I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn’t very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. – Joe Dante • I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty. – Buzz Aldrin • I grew up in New Jersey in the ’80s. That means one thing: Big hair. … I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show. – Jancee Dunn • I grew up in northern New Jersey – the banlieue of New York – and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day. – Jonathan Ames • I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children’s theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn’t fit in. – Jesse Eisenberg • I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier – I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it. – Piper Perabo • I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it’s both. It seems like I’m always leaving my home. That’s part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time. – Junot Diaz • I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don’t hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. – Mikhail Baryshnikov • I just know what it’s like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey. – Ray Liotta • I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. – Fetty Wap • I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school. – Melissa Rauch • I know California isn’t a real destination. You can’t get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It’s about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had. – Kate Braverman • I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. – John Forbes Nash • I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn’t do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack. – Geraldo Rivera • I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too – Paul Muldoon • I love music. I’ve just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be. – Queen Latifah • I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn’t that great? – Joel McHale • I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery. – Emily Remler • I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we’re going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. – Chris Christie • I should call myself four market Norton. I’m great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey. – Jim Norton • I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it’s that same fear. – Bill Burr • I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like – the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way. – John Lloyd Young • I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein’s house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton – a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn’t live in. I’d always say, “That was Albert Einstein’s house.” And they’d say, “What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?” And I’d always say to people, “Because he didn’t care!” – Fran Lebowitz • I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey. – Jon Corzine • I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump. – Tom Perrotta • I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn’t get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then… the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball. – Monte Irvin • I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. – George R. R. Martin • I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. – Daisy Fuentes • I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. – Bernie Worrell • I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. – Jon Stewart • I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. – Ice T • I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year – depending on the breaks. – J. Michael Straczynski • I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don’t know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese. – Paul Auster • I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. – Joe Tex • I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey. – Joe Kyrillos • I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places. – DeForest Soaries • I went home every night to New Jersey – or most nights – and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn’t have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time. – Kellyanne Conway • I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don’t even want to know what I sounded like back then! – Odeya Rush • I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know? – Stacey Dash • I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-’70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. – Feisal Abdul Rauf • I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge. – Cassandra Clare • I’d literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday’s in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers. – Patrick Carney • If I had the choice now, I’d make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won’t do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we’re making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens. – Chris Christie • If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey… then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life. – Al Sharpton • If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. – Dennis Miller • If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it’s pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it’s going to be as strong 20 years from now? – Dannel Malloy • If you were back in the Cretaceous Period – the last of the time of the dinosaurs – and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water. – Kenneth Lacovara • If you’re Chris Christie, who is governor of New Jersey, a state that obviously was impacted by 9/11, this gives you an opportunity to talk about how, as governor, you had to deal with terrorism and security issues. – Amy Walter • If you’re from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don’t let anyone know how great it is here. It’s the best kept secret. – Jon Bon Jovi • If you’re in the contracting business in this country, you’re suspect. If you’re in the contracting business in New Jersey, you’re indictable. If you’re in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you’re convicted. – Raymond J. Donovan • I’m a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher’s union. – Chris Christie • I’m a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. – Treat Williams • I’m from New Jersey / I don’t expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust. – John Gorka • I’m from the dirty depths of New Jersey. – Ezra Miller • I’m here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey. – George Pataki • I’m just this Dominican kid from New Jersey. – Junot Diaz • I’m Palestinian, I’m disabled, I’m female and I live in New Jersey. – Maysoon Zayid • Immigrating didn’t burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There’s nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it’s like home is all those things combined. – Junot Diaz • In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. – Leslie Charteris • In dealing with Syria’s dictator…only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria’s proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus. – William Safire • In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years. – Chris Christie • In the end, all worlds, whether they’re set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don’t got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don’t get it twisted: you still got to do some work. – Junot Diaz • It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I’d feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-‘n’-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, “No, thanks,” and turn my head away. – George Carlin • It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys. – David Grisman • It was tough doing ‘Underneath the Lintel’ in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult. – Richard Schiff • It’s about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. – Cory Booker • It’s great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We’re both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods. – Jon Stewart • I’ve been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn’t that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I’m from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group. – Brittany Murphy • I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father. – Queen Latifah • I’ve never been one for sitting on beaches. Let me tell you who I am: I’m a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act. – Piper Perabo • I’ve travelled to many states and seen the suffering in people’s eyes I’ve visited communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana and Ohio whose manufacturing jobs have literally disappeared. An embarrassment to our country and it’s horrible. – Donald Trump • Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us. – Anna Quindlen • Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most notably the late William J. Brennan, who ushered in our nation’s recommitment to civil rights in the latter half of the 20th century. – Frank Lautenberg • Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it’s clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused. – Louis Caldera • Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything. – Kirsten Dunst • Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. – Michael Ian Black • Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today. – Kirsten Dunst • Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. – Tim Howard • Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. – Raymond Sokolov • Maybe because I’m from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear – I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I’d say to him, “Listen, Mr. President, there’s a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you.” And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now. – Chris Christie • Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. – Andrew Shue • Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife’s favorite – he’d driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head – Peter Terris wouldn’t cross the street to buy me a Twinkie. – Joan Bauer • My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci. – Diablo Cody • My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. – Anita Diament • My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, ‘How come I’m not in New York?’ That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it. – Anne Hathaway • My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. – Melissa Rauch • My goal was to make New Jersey’s state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government. – Charles Edison • My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree. – Samuel Alito • My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. – Junot Diaz • My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs. – Donald Fagen • New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas. – Richard Florida • New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It’s old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. – Junot Diaz • New Jersey gives us glue. – Howard Dietz • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He’s going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn’t a steak. – Jimmy Fallon • New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra. – Queen Latifah • New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call ‘a center’ or ‘the center of the universe,’ has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision. – Junot Diaz • New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, ‘black man loots house, steals white woman.’ – Bill Maher • New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who’s come from here will tell you that same story. – Jon Bon Jovi • New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives. – Ezra Miller • New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed. – Chris Christie • New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime. – Brandon Cruz • New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. – Fran Lebowitz • Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What’s now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don’t. – James Surowiecki • No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey. – Jon Stewart • Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he’s not doing good in Afghanistan either. – Jay Leno • Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I’ve been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That’s the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction. – Chris Christie • One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I’m from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl. – Naturi Naughton • One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience. – Mary Norris • One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don’t have out here in California is Rita’s Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good! – Joe Jonas • Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend’s home in the country, in New Jersey. – Eva Herzigova • Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up to, they only point out the exits you’ve just missed. – Neal Shusterman • Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back. – Jay Leno • People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it’s about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. – Neil deGrasse Tyson • Philadelphia merely seems dull because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. – Robert Anton Wilson • Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It’s closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced. – Wiz Khalifa • Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake. – Amy Poehler • Quick, name some towns in New Jersey – James Thurber • Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else’s world. If it’s a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what’s going to happen to you there, what’ll be around the next corner. But if it’s a lousy book, then it’s like going through Secaucus, New Jersey — it smells and you wish you weren’t there, but since you’ve started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you’re done. – Jonathan Carroll • School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That’s why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food. – Richard Codey • Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That’s a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I’m very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed. – Buzz Aldrin • Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11. – Lawrence O’Donnell • Some of Buddhist texts say that, in the moment after you die, you think of New Jersey and you go to New Jersey or you think of 1820 and you go to 1820. Also, all your sort of inner-symbology gets writ large. So, if you’re a Christian, you see Christian iconography. – George Saunders • St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey. – Margot Leitman • The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band. – Steven Van Zandt • The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. – Woody Allen • The Democrats can’t lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, “Hey, if our candidate can’t go, sure you can put in a replacement.” – Rush Limbaugh • The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There’s no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home. – Cory Booker • The great thing about New Jersey is that it’s close to New York. – Fran Lebowitz • The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol • The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me. – Ilya Kovalchuk • The only time I’ve ever been mistaken for someone else is – and this arguable still – when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, “You look a lot like that guy from computer ads” and I said, “There is a reason because I am that guy,” and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, “That’s a funny joke, but you really do look like him.” He thought I was not me. – John Hodgman • The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country – very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people. – Amos Oz • The President’s biggest problem right now is he’s gotta tell the truth. And we’ve seen this in New Jersey. I’ve told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn’t necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth. – Chris Christie • The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent. – Conan O’Brien • The state of New Jersey is really two places – terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It’s very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work. – Harlan Coben • The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics.” Connie Rosolli. – Janet Evanovich • The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it’s still going on, well I think it’s sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful. – Paul Weller • Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality. – Derek Luke • There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. – Kerry Bishe • There are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando. – Lester Holt • There’s a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It’s the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. – Jill Scott • These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. – Bill Vaughan • These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. – Chris Christie • This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me. – Ilya Kovalchuk • This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn’t work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: “Why didn’t it get done? Why didn’t you do it?” You have to be responsible and accountable. – Chris Christie • Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer. – Erma Bombeck • Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he’s endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It’s good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you’re in a canoe. – Jimmy Fallon • Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was ‘Planet Rock,’ and the other had no lyrics – it was called ‘Numbers,’ from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the ‘hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time. – Queen Latifah • Wait.” Clary was suddenly nervous. “The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something.” Maia snorted. “I’m from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge. – Cassandra Clare • We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It’s the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It’s definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It’s a great opportunity to have such an event. – Susan Ward • We need to have an education system in New Jersey and all over the country that makes all of our kids, either college or career ready. It should be their choice. I mean, every kid doesn’t want to go to college. But I think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential. – Chris Christie • We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students. – Thomas Kean, Jr. • We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it. – Chris Christie • Well, let’s put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. – Jason Alexander • We’re called New Jersey but we’re actually the suburbs of New York. – Harlan Coben • We’ve gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls “sissies.” You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist. – Rush Limbaugh • What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? – O. Henry • What I’d like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I’m negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians. – Donald Trump • When a new writer defends his “style,” the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn’t an artifice. Real style – voice – arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer’s character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation – an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example. – Bill Roorbach • When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra • When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I’ve been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey. – Chris Christie • When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots. – Sylvia Earle • When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons. – Nina Arianda • When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn’t have electricity. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr. • When I was in – at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was – that class still existed. I think it’s pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey. – Meryl Streep • When you say, ‘I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,’ people always say, ‘Oh, really?’ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‘A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.’ – Taylor Swift • Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, ‘It’s okay, I’m from New Jersey.’ I love New Jersey, because it’s not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in ‘Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I’m from New Jersey.’ – Paul Rudnick • Whenever spring comes to New York I can’t stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I’ve got to go. So I went. – Jack Kerouac • With our last album (“No Time To Bleed”), we recorded most of it in New Jersey. And with being on the road 9 months a year, recording an album on the other side of the country- it just wasn’t a good experience for us. All I wanted to do was go home and see my daughter, so for us to only be a couple hours away was huge- I could go home if I needed to. – Mitch Lucker • Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. – Sloane Crosley • Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I’m from New Jersey. – Paul Rudnick • You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something…I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That’s what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!’ – David Keirsey • You’d think New York people was all wise; but no, they can’t get a chance to learn. Every thing’s too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that’s shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? – O. Henry

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Ufna - Ubuntu Festival de Negras Artes

Salvador: Ufna- Ubuntu Festival de Negras Artes acontece este mês no Teatro Gamboa Nova

Em sua segunda edição, o UFNA – UBUNTU FESTIVAL DE NEGRAS ARTES – traz como tema ARTES ENTRECRUZADAS, levando ao palco do Gamboa Nova artistas negros em diversos âmbitos como direção, atuação e produção, para mostrarem seus trabalhos nas mais variadas linguagens artísticas.

O festival nasceu em 2016, idealizado pelos atores Leno Sacramento, Naira da Hora e Shirlei Sanjeva e pela produtora Luciene…

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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Common ('13th')

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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Common ('13th')

“The biggest blessing is the platform that it creates,” the rapper and activist Common says of the widespread awards recognition that his music has received over the past few years, as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of THR‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. The 45-year-old, whose first album was released 25 years ago, continues, “To win an Academy Award [for writing, with John Legend, the song “Glory” for the 2014 movie Selma]]? To get an Emmy nomination for “Letter to the Free” in 13th? The things that we get to talk about, the people that we get to reach, the lives that we get to change — that’s the most important thing for me.”

(Click above to listen to this episode or here to access all of our 174 episodes via iTunes. Past guests include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Lorne Michaels, Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Emma Stone, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Louis C.K., Reese Witherspoon, Harvey Weinstein, Natalie Portman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jane Fonda, Ryan Reynolds, Nicole Kidman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Taraji P. Henson, Justin Timberlake, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Moore, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams, Helen Mirren, Denzel Washington, Brie Larson, Aziz Ansari, Stephen Colbert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Warren Beatty, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Kate Winslet, Sting, Tyler Perry, Amy Schumer, Jay Leno, Mandy Moore, Ricky Gervais, Kris Jenner & Jimmy Kimmel.

Common was born Lonnie Rashid Lynn and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He found his calling when hip-hop blew up in the eighties and he saw people around him rapping and break-dancing. “I related to it so much,” he remembers, noting, “I initially got into music because I was a break-dancer.” As his voice matured, he began rapping, as well, and soon adopted the moniker “Common Sense,” something his mother always had urged him to use more of. At just 19, his first album, Can I Borrow a Dollar (1992), was released and put him on map with the underground hip-hop community, but not with the masses as he had hoped. He named his second album Resurrection (1994), feeling as if he needed to come back from the dead — and he did. On the back of the controversial single “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” which suggested that hip-hop was losing its purity, and which enraged Ice Cube and other West Coast rappers, it proved a hit.

Meanwhile, the rapper, who had been raised with a great “belief in God,” was “reading a lot” and beginning to realize that “music has an impact.” His already existing positive outlook and his growing social conscience combined to steer him in the direction of making “conscious music,” music that informs and enlightens those who hear it. One bump on the road was having to change his stage name, after a group from California that also called itself Common Sense sued him. He reluctantly dropped the “Sense” — “That was the period I lost my hair,” he says, noting he was “stressed out” that his music identity would be lost — and began going simply as Common. With the benefit of hindsight, he says he’s happy the change happened, since Common reinforces the way that he sees himself: as a man of the people.

Common’s fourth album, 2000’s Like Water for Chocolate, proved his biggest hit yet. On the back of the single “The Light,” it went gold, he won a Grammy for best rap solo performance and his public profile changed entirely. “It was a totally different level,” he explains. “It was going from an underground artist that other artists appreciated and getting some critical acclaim, to mainstream people knowing the song, at least.” Shortly thereafter, he and a younger, up-and-coming rapper from Chicago, Kanye West, began working together. In 2003, Common was featured on Kanye’s breakout album The College Dropout, and in 2005 Kanye was featured on Common’s album Be, which eventually became his second to go gold.

Also in 2003, Common began to get into acting, first with parts on TV (starting with Girlfriends in 2003) and then films (beginning with 2007’s Smokin’ Aces). “After the album Like Water for Chocolate,” he recalls, I hit kind of a creative ceiling musically, and I really felt that there was something more for me to do, creative in another way, to dig into the divine aspect of art and expressing myself, but I didn’t know what it was. I started working on trying to play instruments, and it just didn’t feel natural. But I went to my first acting class, and I felt like the heavens opened up. I was like, ‘Wow, I never knew that I could express myself in this way.'” He soon was appearing in roles and films of increasing significance, and winning strong notices for his contributions.

In 2012, having come through a period of being relentlessly slandered by Fox News, generally, and Bill O’Reilly, specifically, with suggestions that he had supported “cop killers” and therefore should not have been invited to read poetry at the White House, as he was in May 2011 (“That was obviously to bring down our president, Barack Obama, and our first lady, Michelle Obama,” he says now), he entered one of the most fruitful chapters of his career, which continues to this day. That January, he attended the Sundance Film Festival and met the fast-rising filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who was there with her film Middle of Nowhere. They hit it off and, not long after, she cast him in her next film, Selma, as James Bevel, a radical member of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s inner-circle.

DuVernay also welcomed a music contribution from Common for Selma‘s soundtrack. He reached out to John Legend about collaborating on a song called “Glory,” Legend sent back his proposed chords and chorus, and then Common, shortly after leaving his father’s memorial service, set to work adding rap lyrics. “I was in a real open-hearted space,” he says, and finished his work within a week-and-a-half, lyrically tying Selma to more recent race-related confrontations, specifically, Ferguson. “We made a period piece feel like now,” he says. “Glory” cracked the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was awarded Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe and Academy Awards. Common looks back on his Selma era as “life-changing” and “life-enhancing,” and adds, “There’s no other movie or song that I would want to receive my first Academy Award for than Selma and ‘Glory.’ It gave me more responsibility and work to do.”

Legend’s portion of the Oscar acceptance speech for “Glory,” in which he noted that “there are more black men under correctional control today than were under slavery in 1850,” had a profound impact on Common that is visible even in footage of the moment. “It shook me, it really shook me,” he acknowledges, “and from there I started to seek out more information,” including Michelle Alexander‘s 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. And when he later learned that DuVernay’s next film would be a documentary about mass incarceration, he reached out to her and pleaded for the change to contribute a song to it. “I just wanted to write something that was emotional, something that was spiritual, something that was moving… and gave information but also was hopeful,” he says. The result was “Letter to the Free,” a portion of which he first sang to DuVernay at a White House celebration to which they both were invited near the end of the Obama Administration. “She couldn’t deny it,” he says with a chuckle, adding, “She ended up changing the ending of the film because of the song ‘Letter to the Free.'”

Even with his music being recognized left and right, Common’s focus remains firmly on activism (he jetted off from our recording to a rally in Sacramento) and bettering himself, both as an artist and as a person. “I know I have to grow,” he says. “I’m gonna work and give 150 percent, 360 degrees of me, to grow to become a great actor — but I do believe I can be a great actor,” he says. “I love theater and I really would love to act on Broadway, and write for Broadway, and write music for Broadway and produce for Broadway.” And, he says, in response to a question about the Donald Trump era, he says, “No government is greater than the people, no government is greater than God,” adding, “What I’ve observed is it has awakened a lot of people to want to do more. The pain and the hatred that exists in America — as it’s surfaced, people who want to see good in America and want to see love have surfaced, too.” He closes, “Whatever your passion is that’s spreading love to yourself and other human beings, we have to pursue that with all that we got right now.”

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Tam adı: Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers Doğum tarihi: 1 Ekim 1989 Doğum yeri: Sacramento, Kaliforniya/ABD Boyu: 1,70 m Ailesi: Heather Desaulniers, Sylvain Desaulniers Mesleği: Oyuncu ve Şarkıcı Aktif Yılları: 1998’den bu yana Sosyal Medyada

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Son olarak Brie Larson’ı, “Kong: Kafatası Adası” filminde “Weaver” rolünde gazeteci kadın olarak gördük.Başarılı bir oyuncu olmakla birlikte ayrıca bir müzisyen ve onun biyografi sayfasındasınız.

Brie Larson, 1 Ekim 1989 tarihinde Sacramento, Kaliforniya, ABD’de dünyaya gelmiştir. Tam adı ise  Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers’dır. Babası ve annesinin adları ise Heather Desaulniers, Sylvain Desaulniers’dır. Milaine Desaulniers adında da kardeşi vardır. Daha Çocukken anne ve babası boşanmış ve annesi ve kız kardeşi Milaine ile Los Angeles’a taşınmışlardır.

Francisco’da Amerikan Konservatuvar Tiyatrosu’nda oyunculuk eğitimi almıştır.Daha öncesinde ise evde eğitim alıyordu.

Çocukken yaşı ilerlerken, ilk dili Fransızca’ydı. Kendi öz soyadının telaffuzu zor olduğu için büyük büyük annesinin kızlık soyadı olan ”Larson”ı kullanmayı tercih ettiğini söylemiştir.

Brie Larson, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” adlı Talk Show’da yer alan skeçlerde oynayarak adından söz ettirmeye başlarken,bu onun ilk işiydi.Buradaki namından sonra,”Schimmel ” adlı dizide kısa süreliğine yer aldı.Akabinde ise “Raising Dad” adlı dizide ekranlara tekrar geri döndü.Buradaki rolü ise “Emily ” oldu.

2003’te Disney Channel’ın özgün filmi Right on Track’ta rol aşdı. 2004’te “Sleepover”adlı filminde rol alırken aynı zamanda “Keşke 30 Olsam” adlı filmde de küçük bir rol aldı.

2012’de 1980’lerin ünlü dizisi 21 Jump Street’ten uyarlanan Liseli Polisler filminde rol aldı.Daha sonra yani bir yıl sonrasında ise  2013’te “Short Term 12” adlı  filminde rol aldı.Bu filmdeki başarılı oyunculuğuyla,Eleştirmenlerin Seçimi Film Ödülleri’nde “En İyi Kadın Oyuncu” adaylığı dahil birçok ödül ve adaylık elde etti.

2015’te “Gizli Dünya” filminde oynadı. Bu Filmdeki oyunculuğuyla “En İyi Kadın Oyuncu” dalında Akademi, Altın Küre ve BAFTA ödüllerini kazanmış oldu.

Brie Larson ,2015 yılında oynadığı “Room” adlı filmindeki rolü ile 10 Ocak 2016 tarihinde yapılan 73. Altın Küre Ödülleri töreninde Drama dalında “En İyi Kadın Oyuncu “ödülünü kazandı.

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2005 – Finally Out Of P.E.

2005 – “She Said” (Single)

2005 – “Life After You”(Single)

Filmleri ve Dizileri

2017 – Kong: Kafatası Adası → Weaver

2017 – The Glass Castle → Jeannette Walls

2017 – Unicorn Store → Kit

2016 – Brooklyn Bridge

2016 – Basmati Blues → Linda

2016 – Free Fire

2015 – Trainwreck

2015 – Room → Ma

2015 – Digging for Fire → Max

2014 – The Gambler→ Amy Phillips

2013 – The Spectacular Now → Cassidy

2013 – Kısa Dönem 12 → Grace

2013 – Kalbim Sende → Monica

2012 – Liseli Polisler→ Molly Tracey

2011 – The Trouble With Bliss→ Stephaine Jouseski

2011 – Rampart → Helen

2010 – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Envy Adams

2010 – Greenberg → Sara

2009 – 2010 – United States of Tara → Kate Gregson (TV Dizisi)

2009 – The League → Ashley (TV Dizisi)

2009 – Tanner Hall→ Kate

2009 – Just Peck → Emily

2009 – Evi Gibisi Yok → Suzy Decker

2009 – Community → Rachel (TV Dizisi)

2007 – The Beautiful Ordinary → Angie

2006 – Baykuş → Beatrice

2004 – Sleepover → Liz

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Brie Larson Winning Best Actress

Brie Larson on Her Bachelor Obsession

Brie Larson – She Said (Radio Edit)

How Room’s Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay Bonded over Star Wars

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