Barry Levinson
Doug Kapustin/Baltimore Sun
"When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole..." (Read full text) -- Barry Levinson, filmmaker
"When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole..." (Read full text) -- Barry Levinson, filmmaker (Doug Kapustin/Baltimore Sun)
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Jesse Sandlin
Trae Patton/Bravo Photo
"I love saying its name out loud in a bar, and I love holding the can with the red-and-white label and Mr. Boh. I love how someone is always showing up at a house party with a case of Boh, and I love how no one ever calls it by its proper name, National Bohemian. Most of all I love that everyone knows Natty Boh's not really brewed here anymore and that nobody minds because we have all agreed to agree that it's our hometown beer." -- Jesse Sandlin, chef
"I love saying its name out loud in a bar, and I love holding the can with the red-and-white label and Mr. Boh. I love how someone is always showing up at a house party with a case of Boh, and I love how no one ever calls it by its proper name, National Bohemian. Most of all I love that everyone knows Natty Boh's not really brewed here anymore and that nobody minds because we have all agreed to agree that it's our hometown beer." -- Jesse Sandlin, chef (Trae Patton/Bravo Photo)
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H.L. Mencken
Robert F. Kniesche/Baltimore Sun
''I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg." -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun journalist
''I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg." -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun journalist (Robert F. Kniesche/Baltimore Sun)
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Mickey Cucchiella
Colby Ware/Baltimore Sun
"I think my favorite thing about Baltimore is its accent and dialect. Although sometimes ridiculed for having it, I would never try and lose it. I know that many will say it sounds ignorant or even foreign, but it is ours and ours only. Being from Baltimore gives me great pride, and I would never want to lose the one thing that identifies me so clearly with the city I love." -- Mickey Cucchiella, stand-up comic and 98 Rock DJ
"I think my favorite thing about Baltimore is its accent and dialect. Although sometimes ridiculed for having it, I would never try and lose it. I know that many will say it sounds ignorant or even foreign, but it is ours and ours only. Being from Baltimore gives me great pride, and I would never want to lose the one thing that identifies me so clearly with the city I love." -- Mickey Cucchiella, stand-up comic and 98 Rock DJ (Colby Ware/Baltimore Sun)
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Russell Baker
Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun
"Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding." -- Russell Baker, columnist and host
"Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding." -- Russell Baker, columnist and host (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)
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