Islands Quotes - Page 33

• That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Switzerland, Economy

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Growing Up, Massachusetts, Nantucket

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Color, Important, Influence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Lucky, Able

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

  Joey Badass

  Jamaica, Dancing, Culture

  Source: gothamist.com

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• I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Crazy, Home

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• I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Intellectual, Culture, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

  Rita Gelman

  Airplane, Men, Years

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• I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Reality, Thinking, Creating

  "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

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• As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Fall, People, Important

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• Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Ocean, Our World, Air

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• I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

  Sadako Ogata

  Japan, People, Effort

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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• Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

  Maurice Strong

  Fate, Sea, Affluence

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• More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

  John Fahey

  Meaningful, Real, Tv Shows

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• On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.

  John McPhee

  Thinking, Race, Sky

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• The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

  Elizabeth George

  Pacific Northwest, Location, Novel

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• It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

  Matthew Kelly

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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• O ye by wandering tempest sown
  'Neath every alien star,
  Forget not whence the breath was blown
  That wafted you afar!
  For ye are still her ancient seed
  On younger soil let fall—
  Children of Britain's island-breed,
  To whom the Mother in her need
  Perchance may one day call.

  William Watson

  Mother, Stars, Children

  William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Goal

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• American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

  James Carroll

  War, Hero, Air

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• Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

  Jack London

  Hawaii, Determine, Particular

  Jack London (1965). “Stories of Hawaii”

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• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Eight, Office

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