Halima Aden Quotes

I love everything Minnesota.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I love Minnesota.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I grew up in Minnesota.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

I come here as one of you - an Iowan!

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

Arkansas Comes First.

One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am.

If you look in a dictionary, the word 'Indianan' may appear. But the first task, the litmus test as to whether or not someone really is from Indiana or has spent any kind of considerable time in Indiana, is whether or not they use the word 'Indianan,' because no one in Indiana ever uses that term. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers.

I'm up in Minneapolis all the time. I love being up there.

Minnesota's been good to me.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie.

I loved my time in Minnesota. I loved it so much that I lived up there until 1999.

I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by the other counties in Britain.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.