Idaho Quotes

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

Butch Otter

Responsibility, Government, Talking

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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

Mariel Hemingway

New York, Night, Men

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For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

Michael K. Simpson

Believe, Land, Issues

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What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.

Butch Otter

Government, Citizens, States

"Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

Michael K. Simpson

People, Needs, Development

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As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

Michael K. Simpson

Senior, Travel, Drug

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My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

Sean Astin

Running, Home, Wife

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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Bernie Taupin

Cities, Rest Of Your Life, England

"Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

Aaron Paul

Towns, Small Town, Grew Up

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.

Dree Hemingway

Fashion, New York, Home

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Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church.

Sun Myung Moon

Beautiful, Unification Church, People

"Our Pride". Reverend Sun Myung Moon's remarks at Belvedere (as translated by Bo Hi Pak), www.tparents.org. December 13, 1981.

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I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.

Robert Pattinson

People, Three, Littles

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A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

Jeane Kirkpatrick

War, Class, People

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I listen to old Idaho, and there are moments of true inspiration there. I think the music is speaking on its own a little bit more. It's evolving, it's not losing its heart.

Jeff Martin

Inspiration, Heart, Thinking

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Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

Mos Def

Sex, Dirty, Rap

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I don't feel sorry for myself.

Kevin Pietersen

Sorry, Opportunity Knocks, Feels

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I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

Robert Fulghum

Tired, People, World

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

Love, Life, Positive

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As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

Dan Lipinski

Country, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Clark Kerr

Status Quo, Solutions

Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Dennis Weaver

Business, Problem, Solutions

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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Thune

Ideas, Chance, Individual

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As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.

Terry Tempest Williams

Beautiful, Children, Space

Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Ivan Chermayeff

Design, Problem, Solve

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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

Pamela Sue Martin

Worry, Mountain, Tunes

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