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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
M. Stanton Evans / Journalist
Connecticut
Fewer
Hampshire
Maryland
New Hampshire
Nine
Southern
States
Established
Churches
Colonies
Episcopal
Southern States
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Helping people get the skills they need to set them up for a rewarding career helps keep people in Connecticut, and it ensures that we have a workforce that's ready to fill the thousands of manufacturing jobs of the future.
Chris Murphy / United States Senator
Connecticut
Manufacturing
Workforce
Fill
Manufacturing Jobs
Rewarding
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
Candace Bushnell / Novelist
Connecticut
Country
House
Population
Writing
Love Time Best
Both Worlds
Love Best Time
Worlds
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What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to get a permit from their police department before they can carry a pistol.
Chris Murphy / United States Senator
Assault
Checks
Connecticut
Department
Magazines
Permit
Police Department
Weapons
Ban
Pistol
Require
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My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
Gus Van Sant / Film Director
Kids
Chicago
Colorado
Connecticut
Couple
Oregon
San Francisco
School
Years
Couple Years
Francisco
San
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Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles.
Courtney A. Kemp /
Connecticut
Far Away
Miles
Time Long Black
Time Black Long
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Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.
Robert Ballard / Professor
Connecticut
Ice
North Pole
Above
Cube
Floods
Ice Cube
Melt
Mile
Million
North
Pole
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We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.
Christopher Abbott / Actor
Connecticut
Tennessee
Time Family Where
Gathered
Mostly
Summers
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Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Dorothy Hamill / Figure Skater
Advantage
Beach
Beautiful
Community
Connecticut
Family Life
Figure Skating
Greenwich
Our Town
Parks
Riverside
Upside Down
Life Family Great
Beaches
Upside
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My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.
Daryl Hall / Singer
Connecticut
Miles
Border
Houses
Piece
Valley
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The Connecticut Open is one of my favorite events in the summer, so it feels great to have it confirmed on my calendar. I have a special relationship with the tournament and always feel such strong support when I'm on the court there.
Petra Kvitova / Tennis Player
Connecticut
Court
Feels
Summer
Relationship Great Always
Calendar
Confirmed
Strong Support
Tournament
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Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and are now in the process of transitioning into new sources of economic growth. I'm doing what I can to be a strong partner in these efforts.
Elizabeth Esty /
Cities
Connecticut
Economic Growth
Towns
Central
Efforts
Histories
Industrial
Northwest
Partner
Sources
Transitioning
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I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
Bryce Dallas Howard / Film Actress
Dad
Connecticut
Growing Up
Honestly
Los Angeles
Moved
Raised
Years
Angeles
Grow Up
Los
Sheltering
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As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
Jane Green / Author
Connecticut
Fifteen
Home I Am People
Belong
Displaced
Drawn
Emotionally
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
Gail Collins / Journalist
New York
Connecticut
Dakota
Discussion
Fairness
Mississippi
Residents
South Dakota
Support
Thinking
Programs
Remind
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When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
Jupiter Hammon / Poet
War
Colour
Connecticut
Numbers
White
War Good People
Published
Received
Servants
Several
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Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me - I know who I am.
Robin Leach / Actor
Connecticut
Red Wine
Wine
Time Good Morning
Time Morning Good
Glass
Quietly
Robin
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You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut.
Linda Mcmahon /
Connecticut
Ultimate
Voters
People Sometimes Know
Endorsement
Provincial
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Today, I heard directly from Connecticut workers about the importance of strong, predictable federal research funding and how the federal government can be a better partner in spurring innovation and helping life-saving medication reach families who need it most.
Elizabeth Esty /
Connecticut
Federal Government
Funding
Helping
Importance
Innovation
Life Saving
Medication
Predictable
Workers
Directly
Partner
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Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.
Anthony Doerr / Author Of Novels
Arthur
Assumption
Connecticut
Court
Folks
Sorcery
Time King Long
Time King Me
Arrow
Narratives
Proceed
Strike
Twain
Wake
Wrecked
Yankee
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I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. I lived there till I was about 13, and then my family moved to Connecticut. I finished school there, and then I went to college in Philadelphia and came to New York in '87. I wasn't finished with school - I left school to go on the road.
Lachanze /
New York
Augustine
Born
College
Connecticut
Finished
Left
Moved
Philadelphia
Till
There And Then
York
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My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.
Gus Van Sant / Film Director
Chicago
Colorado
Connecticut
Oregon
San Francisco
Couple Years
Francisco
San
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I don't think you can say that one aspect of my life built my perspective. It is a combination of my faith, my family, the people I've met at Connecticut and understanding that basketball is a platform for something bigger than the game, helping people, touching people's lives.
Maya Moore / Basketball Player
Combination
Connecticut
Touching
Life Faith Family
Life Family Faith
One Aspect
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My wife's name, Rebecca Lobo, is on sandwiches and street signs in New England. It adorns the arena rafters at the University of Connecticut, where she first became a basketball star. Her high school in Massachusetts is on Rebecca Lobo Way, a nice trump card to play at reunions.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
Arena
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New England
Sandwiches
Card
Signs
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My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
Carol W. Greider /
Connecticut
Department
Faculty
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
Physics
San Diego
Family Father Parents
Family Father New
Completed
Diego
Geneticist
Haven
San
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I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.
Polly Bergen / Film Actress
Connecticut
Happy People
Simple
Simple Life
Lots
Exactly
Exactly What
Saw
Hoped
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My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.
Nell Scovell /
Camps
Connecticut
Contribution
Faded
Late
My Time
Night
Session
Summer
Summer Camp
Tick
Camp
Short
Least
List
Memory
Popular
Trip
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One of our books has been made into a musical, 'The Great American Mousical,' which I directed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, 'Simeon's Gift,' has been adapted for a symphony orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Julie Andrews / Film Actress
Adapted
Connecticut
Great American
Los Angeles
Opera
Opera House
Orchestra
Performers
Symphony
Angeles
Board
Directed
Los
Member
Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra
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I'm from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes - in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of are polyrhythmic, bouncy, loping. The way that I want to approach that is to get, like, a flat-footed Connecticut hard-core drummer to play these bouncy, loping polyrhythms.
David Longstreth /
Coast
Connecticut
Drummer
East Coast
In Other Words
Rhythms
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There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.
Susan Bysiewicz / Former Secretary Of The State Of Connecticut
Connecticut
Election
Office
Secretary
Fairly
Run
Chief
Efficiently
Responsibilities
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One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to provide businesses with more information about business opportunities in Connecticut. That's both to businesses that are here already and also to businesses that are not located here, but might be interested in coming.
Susan Bysiewicz / Former Secretary Of The State Of Connecticut
Connecticut
Secretary
Business Opportunities
Hoping
Located
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We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.
Eric Schneiderman / New York Attorney General
Environmental
Connecticut
Critical
Delaware
House Of Representatives
Maryland
Power Plants
Remove
Representatives
Toxic
Attorneys
Coalition
Communities
Efforts
Led
Plants
Polluting
Regulations
Sued
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For 10 years while I was at ESPN, I lived at the Residence Inn in Southington, Connecticut, near Bristol. I did that because my wife had a great job in New York City, and we had a place in New York City, at 54th and 8th. On Friday, I would come back, and then on Sunday evening I would go back to the Residence Inn.
Skip Bayless /
Bristol
Connecticut
Espn
Evening
Friday
Great Job
New York City
Residence
Sunday
Inn
Near
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I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.
Kevin Nealon / Actor
Car
Born
Connecticut
Germany
Grew
Remember
Three
University
Louis
Weeks
Graduated
Helicopter
Split
St. Louis
Worked
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I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
Linwood Barclay / Author
Coming Of Age
Connecticut
Ontario
Suburbs
Toronto
Bought
Cottage
Park
Region
Resort
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Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.
Glenn Gould / Pianist
Connecticut
Conservatism
Fourth
Long Island
Specialty
Stagnation
Afraid
Success Me Long
Beethoven
Certainly
Tremendous
Concert
George
Island
Piece
Sets
Surely
Third
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I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.
Mike White / Director
New York
College
Connecticut
Existence
Grew
Pasadena
Remember
University
Look New Know
Cultured
References
So-Called
Suburban
York
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Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream.
Neal Adams /
Connecticut
Ghost
Manhattan
Romance
Sticks
Comic Strip
Olden
Rubbing
Strip
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan / Author
Connecticut
Descendants
Massachusetts
New England
Papers
Posterity
Track
Appeared
Benefit
Carefully
Governed
Mainly
Writ
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