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  • I'm an everything Baltimore fan. -- Josh Charles
  • If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. -- Carol Moseley Braun
  • I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams. -- Josh Charles
  • There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. -- H. L. Mencken
  • If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community. -- Serge Lang
  • Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun. -- Earl Monroe
  • Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style. -- Christian Siriano
  • Baltimore is a great place. -- Julie Bowen
  • I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore -- Art Modell
  • Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town. -- John Waters
  • I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me. -- Carmelo Anthony
  • I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen. -- Bobby Bonilla
  • Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes. -- Mark Teixeira
  • I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left. -- John Waters
  • I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore. -- John Waters
  • Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road. -- Buffalo Bill
  • To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years. -- Norman Granz
  • A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in. -- John Waters
  • We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime. -- Bob Lilly
  • I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. -- John Waters
  • I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion. -- Frank Deford
  • Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary. -- Gertrude Stein
  • Michelle [ Pfeiffer] was perfect as Miss Baltimore Crabs. -- Kristin Chenoweth
  • He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise. -- Hines Ward
  • I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. -- Jim McKay
  • I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven -- Jacoby Jones
  • D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. -- Laura Lippman
  • People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries." -- John Waters
  • I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee. -- Jonathan Ogden
  • The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. -- Jacques Lacan
  • I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. -- Bob Ehrlich
  • A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. -- Betty Hill
  • As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Nancy Pelosi
  • The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab. -- Robin Wright
  • Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.' -- Christopher Golden
  • People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore. -- Idris Elba
  • I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day. -- Steve Clevenger
  • With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. -- John Moody
  • Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. -- Frederick Douglass
  • What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
  • I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years. -- Joe Flacco
  • Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. -- Gwen Ifill
  • The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cincinnati. -- Joe Kelley
  • I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America. -- Barbara Mikulski
  • The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years. -- Cyrus Chestnut
  • While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author. -- Karen Hesse
  • What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. -- Russell Baker
  • If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?" -- David Simon
  • I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. -- Wendell Pierce
  • John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film. -- Mink Stole
  • The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all. -- Gregory Kane
  • Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. -- Jerry Leiber
  • You shoot another guyâ??well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, itâ??s time to admit you have a problem. -- David Simon
  • I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? -- Cass Elliot
  • At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland -- Jules Verne
  • I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want. -- Sheldon Candis
  • Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner! -- Bayard Taylor
  • I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment. -- Albert Belle
  • I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. -- Harry Frankfurt
  • We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago. -- Donald Trump
  • Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!' -- Bayard Taylor
  • There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx. -- Art Donovan
  • I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding. -- Philipp Meyer
  • I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas. -- Ozzie Newsome
  • I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me. -- Kim Fields
  • Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect. -- Barack Obama
  • Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time. -- Aidan Gillen
  • Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends. -- Jack Barakat
  • People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way. -- Aidan Gillen
  • The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons. -- Gregory Kane
  • He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime. -- George Steinbrenner
  • I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
  • The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property -- John Moody
  • The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. -- John Moody
  • I'm a Baltimore guy. I've always loved Baltimore and always will love Baltimore, but baseball is baseball, and when you're playing on the opposing team, you're going to get booed. -- Mark Teixeira
  • In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon. -- Sheldon Candis
  • Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place. -- Polly Bergen
  • It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. -- David Simon
  • I think when you have Baltimore, which in the first night was practically wiped out or brought back 30 years. Because the police were instructed to stand down. You can't let that happen. -- Donald Trump
  • I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. -- Tori Amos
  • When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. -- John Moody
  • [Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis. -- Donald Trump
  • People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors. -- Geoffrey Rush
  • When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period -- John Moody
  • Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court. -- Alex Berenson
  • Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired. -- Eric Davis
  • We'll always be grateful for the love we've received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl, i'll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens. -- Ray Rice
  • The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that, that's not a statement, that's not politics, that's not activism, it's just criminal behavior. -- Barack Obama
  • I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there. -- Common
  • Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do. -- Al Sharpton
  • Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore. -- Al Sharpton
  • There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road. -- Al Sharpton
  • What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay. -- Barbara Mikulski
  • Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going. -- Bruce Springsteen
  • Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans. -- Ralph Stanley
  • We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception. -- Julie Roginsky
  • After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing. -- Leigh Newman
  • We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was. -- Philipp Meyer
  • My dream is to be able to make something in Baltimore that's just there. Make a movie or make a show there. I only left because there wasn't any opportunity except being an extra in Barry Levinson or John Waters movies. -- Derek Waters
  • My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they're crazy, but they're completely normal. -- John Waters
  • If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers. -- Babe Ruth
  • Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime." -- Bob Lilly
  • The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American. -- Al Sharpton
  • I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think. -- Richard Masur
  • Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. -- Dana Perino
  • I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. -- Laura Lippman
  • What is left of the poor? Try to buy a fresh f**king vegetable in West Baltimore. It is a not completely inconceivable scenario in the future, we'll all look like that... Waddling from convenience store to fast food outlet, chewing mindlessly on 99 cent hamburgers. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese. -- Johnathon Schaech
  • Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. -- Barry Levinson
  • Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college. -- David Simon
  • I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican. -- Rand Paul
  • The people of Baltimore are great. I love Baltimore. What I looked forward to, every year, was getting a new apartment in a different part of town and hanging out. People started to see you in the character that you were, so everyone thought I was real police. -- Wendell Pierce
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