Hawaii Quotes

• Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

  Paul Theroux

  Grace, Mind, States

  Observer, London, October 29, 1989.

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• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, New York, Moving

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• We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

  William McKinley

  Fate, Destiny, California

  William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.

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• In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

  James MacArthur

  Believe, Ingredients, Timing

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kentucky, Texas, Kansas

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• I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

  Kiana Tom

  Girl, Kids, Who I Am

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Islands, Half, Want

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• Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

  Linda Lingle

  Jobs, Heart, School

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• Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

  James MacArthur

  Grows, Hard

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• I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.

  Josh Holloway

  Stay Strong, Want, Littles

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• If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

  Tia Carrere

  Roles, Proud, Animated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

  David R. Ellis

  Fun, Mean, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!

  Martin Denny

  Beach, Good Friend, Night

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• Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

  James MacArthur

  Thinking, People, World

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• In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Years, Twenties

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

  Dan Quayle

  Unique, Different, Politics

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• Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Beautiful

  "Rachelle Lefevre Interview OFF THE MAP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

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• In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

  Stephen Collins

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Islands, Usa

  Press comment in Hawaii, April 25, 1989.

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• I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Book, Done, Lasts

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• Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

  Bruno Mars

  Air, Cheesy, Sound

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• I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.

  Linda Lingle

  Lying, Believe, States

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• The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

  Beau Bridges

  Boys, Bakers, Pitching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe, States, Guam

  "World Wrestling Federation: Monday Night Raw". July 11, 1993.

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• I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

  Tia Carrere

  Chinese, Descent, Filipino

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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