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I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. -- Matt Taibbi
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know? -- Paul Walker
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. -- Diane Lane
I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A. -- Julie Kavner
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
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. -- Colin Firth
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working. -- Elayne Boosler
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West. -- Ian Frazier
I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard. -- Tommy Lee Jones
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. -- Galen Rowell
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast. -- Debby Ryan
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression. -- Arthur Laffer
When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist. -- Wiz Khalifa
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us. -- Bernie Sanders
I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl. -- Lexa Doig
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think. -- Alexandra Wentworth
I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person. -- Diane Warren
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida. -- Don Winslow
I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing. -- Stephanie Courtney
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get. -- Angie Everhart
On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se. -- Al Seckel
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. -- Afrika Bambaataa
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. -- Michael Stipe
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music. -- Tom Araya
I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable. -- Bill Parcells
[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways. -- Eleanor Antin
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. -- Phillip Noyce
We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy. -- Nhat Hanh
I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself. -- Jami Attenberg
So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian. -- Rachel Nichols
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region. -- Robert Brady
I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey. -- Ray Liotta
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood. -- Skitch Henderson
I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl. -- Cassie Scerbo
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. -- Jose Ferreira
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. -- Lev Grossman
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. -- Charlotte Curtis
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. -- Bob McDonnell
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films. -- Donnie Yen
It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing. -- Don Rickles
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage. -- Bebe Neuwirth
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South. -- Big Sean
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast. -- Tommy Bolin
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues. -- Edward Abbey
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain. -- Olivia Wilde
I was stunned to learn that more than 200,000 abandoned, neglected, or orphaned children had been sent from the East Coast to the Midwest on trains between 1854 and 1929. -- Christina Baker Kline
My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a domesticated guy with 3 kids. -- Bill Lawrence
I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building. -- Sam Simon
The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?) -- Edward Abbey
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement. -- Ralph Bakshi
We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record. -- Bob Gaudio
It's really an honor to be included in such an incredible lineup of chefs. The team Borgata has assembled is by far one of the best on the East Coast. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day. -- Kristi Noem
My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively. -- Joan Cusack
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A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America. -- Cormega
The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down. -- Brad Falchuk
Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off. -- Chip Kelly
California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it. -- Eric Ripert
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets. -- Gary Burton
I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are. -- Jase Robertson
If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood. -- Danny Boyle
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a Western, nobody's interested in doing a Western, how can that be? -- Edward Allen Bernero
In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen. -- Michael Vick
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me. -- Daniel Sunjata
I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all. -- Donald Ray Pollock
But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place. -- Marcus Allen
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California. -- Michael B. Jordan
In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia. -- Brad Thor
A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral. -- Philip Larkin
In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film. -- Andrew McCarthy
I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better. -- Dylan Walsh
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. -- Viktor E. Frankl
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here. -- Rafael Palmeiro
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast. -- Kool Keith
Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A. -- Tara Reid
There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on. -- Marco Rubio
There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated. -- Andy Williams
When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with. -- Mindy Kaling
I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish. -- Ben Feldman
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid. -- Meghan Daum
I've enjoyed appearing in Atlantic City. East Coast audiences are a bit brighter than Las Vegas audiences. I think most entertainers will tell you the same thing. The East Coast audiences are more perceptive - especially when it comes to a performer with a theatrical background. -- Anthony Newley
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00. -- Kate DiCamillo
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time. -- Tommy Lee Jones
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. -- Michael Douglas
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that. -- Nicolas Berggruen
The thing about Canada is that it's a very large country, and the population's very spread out among different regions. Each region in the country really has its own personality and its own culture, you know? From West Coast to East Coast - wherever you go, it's almost like it's its own country. -- Jeff Lemire
Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast. -- Erika Slezak
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by. -- Olly Murs
I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles. -- Tyler Hamilton
We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast. -- Alex Rodriguez
I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made. -- Hope Solo
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. -- Alice Walker
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. -- Ice T
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada. -- Martha MacIsaac
If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches. -- Ric Keller
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess. -- Anthony Michael Hall
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. -- Tessa Thompson
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago. -- Eric Lefkofsky
I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast. -- Tod Machover
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up. -- Marilu Henner
It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern" -- Aeriel Miranda

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