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Kansas City Quotes

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.
- Steve Buscemi

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.
- Herman Cain

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
- Emanuel Cleaver

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.
- David Cone

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
- Marc Davis

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
- Jennifer M Granholm

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
- Dante Hall

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
- Jane D Hull

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
- Groucho Marx

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
- John Kruk

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
- Jay Mcshann

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
- Pat Metheny

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
- Pat Metheny

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
- Wes Montgomery

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
- Jelly Roll Morton

I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.
- Michael Reagan

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
- Billy Sunday

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?
- Calvin Trillin

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
- Mort Walker

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
- Ben Webster

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