Bear Bryant
Football Coach
"Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!"
Alabama quotes
Alabama
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Bill Hicks
Comedian, Writer
"That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama."
Bear Bryant
Football Coach
"I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else."
Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"You can't ride two horses with one behind."
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"It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa"
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"I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything."
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"Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!"
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"The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress."
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"My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama."
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"I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama."
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"A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?"
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"The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted."
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"By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens."
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"I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost."
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"In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here"
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"You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people."
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"...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964"
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"The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics."
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"I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life."
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"You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers."
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"That computer was made in Alabama"
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