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Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. -- Groucho Marx
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. -- John Updike
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
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
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. -- James Earl Jones
In Kansas I have a chess school -- Anatoly Karpov
We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas. -- Jim Ryun
I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. -- L. Frank Baum
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed. -- Shirley Knight
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock. -- Ichiro Suzuki
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side. -- Margaret Spellings
I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education. -- Kathleen Sebelius
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. -- Jay McShann
I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool. -- CC Sabathia
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall. -- John Kruk
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
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
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
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. -- Tom Vilsack
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. -- Todd Tiahrt
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. -- Andrew Taylor Still
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
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. -- Chely Wright
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 grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. -- Sara Paretsky
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time -- Sara Paretsky
Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere. -- Gene Cernan
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. -- David Douglas Duncan
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains. -- Sheri L. Dew
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
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
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program. -- Howard Schultz
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings. -- Sheri L. Dew
Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that! -- Colton Haynes
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
Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
I would love to be in Kansas. -- Paul Reubens
I'm as corny as Kansas in August. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium. -- Bert Blyleven
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. -- Gore Vidal
Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos. -- Ben Aaronovitch
March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.' -- Bill Maher
Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows. -- Eric Stonestreet
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas. -- Francis Parkman
My heart is spinning. Love is a tornado. Will you be my Kansas? -- Jarod Kintz
My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods. -- Hunter Parrish
I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas. -- Phil Ehart
Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City. -- Casey Stengel
There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot. -- Lefty Kreh
I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas. -- Lindsey Wixson
I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas." -- Lindsey Wixson
I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. -- Jeri Ryan
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that. -- Bill Kurtis
Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that. -- Colton Haynes
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. -- Sara Paretsky
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas -- Langston Hughes
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. -- Francis Parkman
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young -- Pat Metheny
Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has. -- Paul Pierce
The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City. -- Jason Wiles
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? -- Jane D. Hull
The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City. -- Jason Wiles
I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas? -- Michael Buckley
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City. -- James Green
Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth. -- W. Bruce Cameron
Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux. -- Simon Winchester
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. -- Howell Raines
Coach Hedge yelled,"Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!" "Holy Hephaestus," Leo muttered. "He really needs to work on his shipspeak. -- Rick Riordan
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities. -- Eric Holder
War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why. -- Randall Wallace
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed -- Barack Obama
I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state. -- Jack Paar
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. -- Henry Louis Gates
You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from. -- Lindsey Wixson
Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line." "Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?" "I lived in Kansas..So ..no -- Rick Riordan
We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion). -- Phil Ehart
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. -- Calvin Trillin
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised. -- Hayley Atwell
I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London. -- Hayley Atwell
I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird. -- Rick Riordan
And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4. -- Jerry Coleman
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City. -- Karolyn Grimes
Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar. -- Marcus Buckingham
No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way. -- Paul Shirley
I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work. -- James Ellroy
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him -- George Plimpton
(...) I donÂ´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -YouÂ´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee. -- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee. -- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. -- Walt Disney
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City. -- Roger Maris
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care. -- Kathleen Sebelius
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care -- Kathleen Sebelius
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor." -- Kevin Sessums
If I didn't ever model? I would be back in Kansas. I would probably end up being a pastry chef. My grandma taught me how to make a pie. -- Lindsey Wixson
I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do. -- Josh Earnest
They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil. -- Jay Leno
This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that. -- Les Miles
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City. -- Paul Westhead
I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do -- to know God and to share God. -- Chely Wright
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar. -- Damien Chazelle
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit. -- Paul Pierce
But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face -- Kathleen Sebelius
In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night. -- Jane Fonda
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. -- Eric Stonestreet
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
I called her Nebraska, because she was from Iowa. We made love like the Midwest. Well, not all of it. More like the Midwest minus Kansas, if you know what I mean. -- Jarod Kintz
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. -- Vernon L. Smith
But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. -- Kathleen Sebelius
I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels. -- Sheri L. Dew
The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore." -- Stephen Jay Gould
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that. -- Ed Asner
I really like Amelia Earhart. She's from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart... I want to do it all. -- Lindsey Wixson
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. -- Tom Piazza
Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere. -- Gene Cernan
We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka. -- Simon Winchester
Kansas has always considered itself a "rock band" - some people might say "symphonic rock band," others might say a "classical rock band," but we've kind've prided ourselves on being a rock band. Kansas rocks. -- Phil Ehart
I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued. -- Laura Moriarty
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American. -- Maya Angelou

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