#new jersey

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality. ↗

— Derek Luke

#become #challenge #changed #day #decided

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. ↗

— Joe Tex

#i #i was born #jersey #may #new

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#bar #came #does #done #earlier

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#am #bar #girl #i #i am

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#jersey #keeping #new #new jersey #several

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#asking #block #crime #day #every

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. ↗

— Ice T

#black #born #families #grew #house

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#between #border #built #canadian #country

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

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied