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I opened for Prince at the Houston Coliseum in front of 10,000 people. I said, Hi, and they booed. They didn`t want to see me. It can be a tough time.

- Keenen Ivory Wayans

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don`t have to fake it.

- Julie Taymor

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

- Ben E. King

God brought them to us. We took out on a wing and a prayer. We said, `We`re going to Hirsch Coliseum to find a family we can help.` Wherever we saw babies, we talked.

- Sarah Jones

Is the Coliseum positioned between two beautiful buttes like Sun Devil Stadium? ... If you can`t be intellectually stimulated by (ASU`s beauty), you don`t have a pulse.

- Lisa Love

(While the enrollment of all local schools are being affected, Johnson, the athletic director, and others wasted no time in letting the right people know that anyone with identification as a Louisiana or Mississippi resident would be admitted to LRSD games for free.) This started with Jay Pickering at Central inviting people from Barton Coliseum to the Tiger cookout last Friday, ... We ran into some logistical problems getting them home, but Laidlaw stepped up and sent two buses to Barton Coliseum last Friday and picked up a bunch of kids and took them to Central's football game.

- Johnny Johnson

(The lobster vendor was one of two new seafood businesses that set up shop on the roadway between the Coliseum and horse barn and the fence adjacent to State Fair Boulevard, facing the additional challenge of attracting customers in a location that had no vendors at previous State Fairs.) I heard there was nothing but horse trailers here before for years, ... We`ve got two obstacles to overcome. The traffic pattern is not ingrained, the way they walk around here. I hope they want to come and explore the new area and see.

- James Wright

We played in the Coliseum then, that had over 94,000 people. Prior to that, the biggest crowd I played in front of was about 1,500. And if you can imagine the sound of 94,000 people chanting `Go, go, go Maury go,` I knew I had a home.

- Maury Wills

The Coliseum is getting used an awful lot. Our usage, to be honest, I don`t know how much more we can squeeze in.

- Archbishop of Canterbury