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No place is better than Akron.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Akron
Better Place Than
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I'm just a little kid from Akron.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Kids
Little Kid
Littles
Akron
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Growing
Growing Up
Struggle
Always Growing Up Up
Akron
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I'm just that kid from Akron who knows what he knows.
Maverick Carter /
Akron
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I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.
Jason Day / Professional Golfer
Cleveland
Good Vibes
Vibes
Akron
Area
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Home
Ohio
Remembered
Life Always Will
Life Home Always
Life Home My Life
Akron
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach / Musician
Humor
Band
Sense Of Humor
Akron
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Home
High School
Ohio
School
Akron
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Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim Jarmusch / Film Director
Father
Journal
Married
Mother
Akron
Beacon
Newspaper
Reviewer
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We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.
Maverick Carter /
Ohio
Akron
Considered
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Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.
Linda Colley / Historian
Barack
Doubtful
Obliged
Stellar
Akron
Barack Obama
Remotely
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I will never forget being in Akron the day the I Promise School opened its doors for the very first time. You could just feel the magnitude of that moment.
Maverick Carter /
Doors
Magnitude
Never Forget
Promise
Akron
Time Moment Day
Opened
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Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.
Drew Pomeranz /
Arizona
Akron
Done Me Game
Ten Minutes
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LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.
Kyle Kuzma /
Ohio
Akron
Lebron
Pole
Role Model
Speaks
Totem
Totem Pole
Volumes
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I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
Richard Smalley / Professor
Invasion
June
Ohio
Stable
Akron
Allied
Midwestern
Wonderfully
Youngest
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
Lebron James / Basketball Player
Kids
Every Night
Growing Up
Lonely
Night
Police
Projects
Scared
Akron
Lived
Side
Nights
Hear
North
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Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.
Mark Zandi /
Zero
Average
Cities
Country
Diverse
Half
Housing
Inauguration
Las Vegas
Orlando
Vegas
Across
Obama
Akron
Ground
Prices
Recession
Third
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You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
H. R. Giger / Painter
Busy
Fantasy
Little Bit
Too Much
Akron
Carefully
Studying
Text
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
Rahm Emanuel / Mayor Of Chicago
Auto Industry
Ohio
President Obama
Romney
Surviving
Akron
Auto
Dayton
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Right Choice
Thriving
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I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'
Jim Nantz / Sportscaster
Travel
First Time
Golf
Golf Course
Imagine
Time Water Me
Akron
Ball
Gosh
Wait
Hole
Tower
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