Maine Quotes - Page 3

• I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Two, Silence

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

  Russ Feingold

  Successful, Needs, Arizona

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• With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Decision, Purpose, Information

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• I'm a fan of Tom's of Maine natural oral care line for those very reasons; they deliver on both healthy and environmental goodness. The beauty of it is you'll feel even more empowered knowing you're doing something good for yourself and the environmental footprint of your beauty routine.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Knowing, Healthy, Environmental

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• Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

  Tom Allen

  Winter, Activity

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• Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Echoes, California

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

  John Sexton

  Moving On, Beautiful, Artist

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• Now, [Donald] Trump has thus far gotten endorsements from illustrious group, that includes Sarah Palin, David Duke, Dennis Rodman, racially profiling birther sheriff, Joe Arpaio, vaping Congressman Duncan Hunter, and just this afternoon, infamous Maine Governor Paul LePage who accused drug dealers with D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty of impregnating white women.

  Chris Hayes

  White, Drug, Groups

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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• When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Mean, Different, Viewpoints

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in and out of office. I think all would note his devotion to Maine; that was number one. The fact he did work in a bipartisan basis with Bill Cohen. And for me, he helped the first Democratic woman get elected.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

  Tom Allen

  Country, Land, Sky

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• We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.

  Eli Pariser

  Together, World, Geek

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• About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

  Paul LePage

  People, Able, States

  "Paul LePage Claims 47 Percent Of ‘Able-Bodied’ Maine Residents Don’t Work" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

  Ben Marcus

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.

  Timothy Simons

  Summer, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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• I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.

  Elizabeth Strout

  New York, Coffee, Opposites

  "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

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• When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Stars, Actors, Too Much

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

  Nicholson Baker

  White, Sailing, Not Sure

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• As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

  Molly Ivins

  Humor, Thinking, Sky

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage

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• Lette me stande to the maine chance.

  John Lyly

  Chance

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.65, Psychology Press

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• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  Olympia Snowe

  Past, Years, People

  Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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