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The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. — Woody Allen

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

The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey, said Herbert. — Harper Lee

New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey. — Stephen King

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

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. — Joe Tex

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. — Raymond Sokolov

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.

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there. — George Benson

I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. — Eric Maskin

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

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. — Chris Christie

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. — Henry Rollins

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch. — Fred Schneider

Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' — Gore Vidal

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. — Bernie Worrell

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico. — John Kennedy Toole

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey. — Jon Corzine

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York. — Fran Lebowitz

[Stephanie] That's not the point. I can't just let monkeys loose in Trenton.
[Lula] Why not? There's all kinds of crazy shit loose in Trenton. — Janet Evanovich

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

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. — Junot Diaz

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

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

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back. — Jay Leno

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. — Donald Trump

We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back. — Chris Christie

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. — Daisy Fuentes

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

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. — Donald Judd

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in. — Scott Walker

If Nonna sensed weakness, she'd zero in for the kill — Rosie Genova

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees. — Weegee

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region. — Wesley Schultz

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley

A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland. — Charlie Puth

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. — Andy Warhol

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

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. — Melissa Rauch

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty. — Buzz Aldrin

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. — Anita Diament

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

Damn, I thought everyone carried a gun in New Jersey!!! — Janet Evanovich

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey. — Eva Herzigova

We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states. — Cory Booker

I missed New Jersey, primeval and green in the summer, a Currier and Ives painting in the winter. I missed hearing English sloppily spoken, — Anonymous

I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey. — Jim Norton

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York. — Harlan Coben

I'm from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge. — Cassandra Clare

No, I live in New Jersey because I like living in New Jersey. — Jon Stewart

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

I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey. — George Pataki

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. — Jon Bon Jovi

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it. — Zach Braff

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism! — Jonah Goldberg

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 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

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. — Fran Lebowitz

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago. — Michael Lewis

When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare. — Charles Rafferty

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. — Cory Booker

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

His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan

HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, 1985 "We lived at 202 Elizabeth Street." My grandmother looked away from the video camera to my head. — Laurie Fabiano

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

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties. — Judy Gold

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 was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots. — G. Willow Wilson

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

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8. — John Joseph Adams

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. — James Balog

Drunk on sports all over again, just like a seven-year old in New Jersey whose mom has just bought him two packs of baseball cards for ten cents. — Tim Cowlishaw

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. — Robert Anton Wilson

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism. — Richard J. Codey

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. — Jason Alexander

New Jersey, in 1844, became the last state to add the qualifying male to citizen, and women who had been voting all along could not vote anymore. — Ann Jones

I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust ... — John Gorka

I used to wonder why people made New Jersey jokes. I don't anymore. — E.J. Copperman

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers. — Kerry Bishe

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

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci. — Diablo Cody

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey. — Junot Diaz

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 was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. — Jon Stewart

Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey. — Eva Herzigova

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know? — Stacey Dash

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey. — Ezra Miller

New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime. — Brandon Cruz

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.

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life. — Frankie Valli

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey. — Treat Williams

SHARK KILLS SECOND BATHER IN NEW JERSEY JULY 7, 1916 SPRING LAKE, NEW JERSEY — Lauren Tarshis

- December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis — Pat Summitt

New Jersey gives us glue. — Howard Dietz

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey — James Thurber

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

I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey ... — Maysoon Zayid