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  • Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. -- Daisy Fuentes
  • I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. -- Jon Stewart
  • From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. -- Robert Smithson
  • 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
  • In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. -- Brendan I. Koerner
  • I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. -- Godfried Danneels
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  • I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties. -- Patricia Highsmith
  • I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! -- Shakuntala Devi
  • I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. -- Fetty Wap
  • When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. -- Trey Anastasio
  • School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food. -- Richard J. Codey
  • Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. -- Tim Howard
  • In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work. -- Junot Diaz
  • I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • New Jersey gives us glue. -- Howard Dietz
  • Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • Quick, name some towns in New Jersey -- James Thurber
  • I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey. -- Ezra Miller
  • I also love horseback riding in New Jersey. -- Eva Herzigova
  • I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey. -- Junot Diaz
  • Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. -- Chris Christie
  • Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. -- Weegee
  • Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. -- Henry Rollins
  • The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. -- Andy Warhol
  • I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. -- Joe Tex
  • Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism! -- Jonah
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  • We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York. -- Harlan Coben
  • I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey. -- George Pataki
  • The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey"¦ -- Maysoon Zayid
  • I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore. -- E.J. Copperman
  • No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey. -- Jon Stewart
  • A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland. -- Charlie Puth
  • I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there. -- George Benson
  • I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. -- Junot Diaz
  • And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. -- Donald Judd
  • Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. -- Jason Alexander
  • I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey. -- Ray Liotta
  • I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey. -- Jon Corzine
  • I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. -- Treat Williams
  • his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night. Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan
  • I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region. -- Wesley Schultz
  • Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey. -- Paul Rudnick
  • All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. -- Donald Trump
  • My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci. -- Diablo Cody
  • Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey. -- Eva Herzigova
  • Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. -- Raymond Sokolov
  • I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust"¦ -- John Gorka
  • I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. -- Eric Maskin
  • There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. -- Kerry Bishe
  • My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. -- Anita Diament
  • New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey. -- Jim Norton
  • I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. -- James Balog
  • Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back. -- Jay Leno
  • I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know? -- Stacey Dash
  • New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime. -- Brandon Cruz
  • My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. -- Melissa Rauch
  • I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. -- Bernie Worrell
  • Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. -- Sloane Crosley
  • We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back. -- Chris Christie
  • My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. -- Peter Eisenman
  • Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either. -- Jay Leno
  • I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers. -- Patrick Carney
  • In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years. -- Chris Christie
  • These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Bill Vaughan
  • I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too -- Paul Muldoon
  • I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there! -- Tammy Blanchard
  • I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too. -- Paul Muldoon
  • These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, -- Chris Christie
  • Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. -- Robert Brady
  • Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world. -- James Lecesne
  • What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? -- O. Henry
  • Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution. -- Steve Kornacki
  • I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery. -- Emily Remler
  • I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the 'Housewives.' I am a huge fan of 'New Jersey.' -- NeNe Leakes
  • I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places. -- DeForest Soaries
  • When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). -- Bill Kraus
  • I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey. -- Joe Kyrillos
  • I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in. -- Jesse Eisenberg
  • I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody. -- Eugene Ormandy
  • The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli -- Janet Evanovich
  • I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey. -- Joe Kyrillos
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  • My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. -- David Einhorn
  • By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. -- Bob Menendez
  • When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra
  • It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult. -- Richard Schiff
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia. -- Robert Brady
  • New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.' -- Bill Maher
  • Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. -- Godfried Danneels
  • I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump. -- Tom Perrotta
  • Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face. -- Janet Evanovich
  • If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. -- Joe Dante
  • I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great? -- Joel McHale
  • St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey. -- Margot Leitman
  • My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. -- Junot Diaz
  • If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. -- Dennis Miller
  • Come with me." "Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years. -- J. Michael Straczynski
  • I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey. -- Matthew Quick
  • I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. -- Abraham Clark
  • I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father. -- Queen Latifah
  • Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey? -- Jeff Smith
  • I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey. -- Adam Hughes
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