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Quotes tagged “Portland”

“[Alice approaches a group of men at the bar]
Hey, what’s up, y’all? [the group of men just stare at her] I don’t know why I just said 'y’all.' 'You all' would have taken just as much time. And I’m not even from the South, I’m from Portland. Which is southern from Canada. Are y’all Canadian? I just did it again, I said it again.”
— Alice Kepley, How to Be Single
Tagged: Y'all, Southern Accent, canadian, Portland, South
“Portland's a city where young people go to retire.”
— Jason, Portlandia, Season 1: Farm
Tagged: Portland, Slackers
“I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm not big into exercising out in nature unless the path is both quick and easy.”
— Emily Schuman, How to Spend 72 Hours in Portland, Oregon
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Portland, Pacific Northwest
“Recycle? What is this, Portland?”
— Alex Kerkovich, Happy Endings, Season 3: No-Ho-Ho
Tagged: Recycling, Portland, Sassy
“Many might think that, as a progressive city known for its hyper-consciousness about its own problems, Portland would be addressing its racial history or at least its current problems with racial inequality and displacement. But Portland only recently became a progressive city, said Millner, the professor, and its past still dominates some parts of government and society.”
— Alana Semuels, The Racist History of Portland, The Whitest City in America
Tagged: racism, racist, Portland, white, Racial Inequality
“I left Portland five years ago. Too conservative.”
— Dawn, Casual, Season 1: ...
Tagged: Portland, Conservative, Irony

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