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Donatello-TMNT in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

New Jersey

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.

Hulk in What If…? - Season 1 Episode 4

New Jersey

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Kevin Smith

New Jersey

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

New Jersey

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

Christina Grimmie

Los Angeles New Jersey

You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!

Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 21

New Jersey

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.

New Jersey

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Christoph Waltz

Stories Movies

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

Spike Lee

Movies

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Darren Aronofsky

Movies

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Carole King

Movies

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

Movies

Tokyo - The modern Babylon.

Araki Kae in Cyberpunk 2077

Tokyo

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Anthony Bourdain

Tokyo Cooking

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Tadao Ando

Paris London Tokyo

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm London Chicago Seoul Tokyo

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Tokyo - which is kinda the same.

Tokyo

The white guys who are really into Japanese culture seem like a trend started by Japan's military.
If in 1945, Japan had said "America we surrender, but one day your grandsons will pleasure themselves to a cartoon octopus", the US troops would've laughed.
Who's laughing now?

Tom Cashman

Japan

1955 Doc Brown: "No wonder this circuit failed. It says, 'Made in Japan'."
1985 Marty: "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan!"

Marty McFly in Back to the Future

Japan

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Jean Paul Getty

Japan

In Japanese, sushi does not mean "raw fish". It means "seasoned rice".

Guy Fieri

Japan Sushi Reis

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Tadao Ando

Europe Japan

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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