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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska. -- Kate Millett
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. -- Standing Bear
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. -- Dave Heineman
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. -- Jay Leno
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. -- Matthew Sweet
I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington. -- Dave Heineman
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska. -- Gabrielle Union
Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska. -- Ben Nelson
I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me. -- Andrew Rannells
Taylor Martinez is to Nebraska what iPad is to Apple. -- Desmond Howard
I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska. -- Dick Cavett
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska. -- Mike Johanns
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska. -- Sam Barry
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth. -- Lizz Winstead
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. -- Lawrence R. Klein
I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska. -- Deb Fischer
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. -- Sean Penn
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. -- Willa Cather
It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots. -- George W. Bush
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say. -- Abigail Washburn
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska. -- Ken Wilber
It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence. -- Tom Osborne
There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents. -- Dan Chaon
When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill. -- Gerrit Smith
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse. -- Ben Nelson
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. -- Evan Williams
I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed. -- Warren Buffett
If I were Osama , and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska. -- L. Neil Smith
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag. -- Kevin Bleyer
When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town. -- Emily Kinney
When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder. -- Dick Cavett
If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation. -- Joe Klein
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see. -- Willa Cather
Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act. -- Beano Cook
We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule. -- Cal Stoll
Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska. -- Carlos Mencia
My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking. -- Hugh Hefner
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska. -- Stephen King
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins. -- Rick Reilly
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. -- Lawrence R. Klein
The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska. -- Willa Cather
I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it. -- Larry the Cable Guy
My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season. -- Tom Osborne
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. -- Charles Frazier
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later. -- William Jennings Bryan
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal -- H.W. Brands
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. -- Bill Bryson
I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know. -- Adam DeVine
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path. -- Bruce Springsteen
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium. -- Edward Abbey
If Hollywood was somewhere else, if Hollywood was in Lincoln, Nebraska, then obviously celebrities would be coming around a lot more to the Huskers games. -- Ryan Kalil
You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 -- George W. Bush
I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in. -- Conor Oberst
Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. -- Will Rogers
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time. -- Evan Williams
Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel. -- Dave Heineman
If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins. -- Ann Patchett
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
State Department lawyers need to have the evidence to back up the charge before they make it. Here's Nebraska Republican Jeff Fortenberry questioning Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson at a House. -- Tom Gjelten
I'm always wearing a Nebraska hat. Most of the time I'm wearing something that's got a Husker something on it. I make sure I have it on TV but I have it regularly. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill." -- Gerrit Smith
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. -- Al Michaels
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
I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people. -- Jason Peter
Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett. -- Stephen Kinzer
Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn. -- Nora Roberts
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. -- Abraham Lincoln
The American people are opposed to ObamaCare. They were when the law passed; they're still opposed to it. But the fact of the matter is it's got to be implemented. We're trying to do our part even here in Nebraska. It's very, very difficult. -- Dave Heineman
I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side. -- Meghan Daum
Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football. -- Ndamukong Suh
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty. -- Warren Buffett
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home. -- Derrick Jensen
I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. -- Gabrielle Union
I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses. -- Larry the Cable Guy
I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life. -- Andy Roddick
I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming. -- Dolores Huerta
When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right? -- Sung Kang
I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people. -- Donna Brazile
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law. -- Wil S. Hylton

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