Nevada Quotes

• I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

  Brian Sandoval

  Responsibility, Support, Want

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• But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

  James Belushi

  Jobs, Mean, California

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• I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

  Bill Richardson

  Hurt, Thinking, Issues

  "Bill Richardson: Latino Presidential Candidate Coming Soon". "Fox News Latino" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

  Brian Sandoval

  Unemployment, Rate, Foreclosure

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

  Harry Reid

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  Democratic response to the State of the Union address, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

  Tia Carrere

  Casinos, Parks, Roller Coaster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

  Drew Carey

  Vegas, Judging, Unions

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

  Mark Foley

  Country, Travel, New York

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  California, Doors, Pay

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• I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

  Mel Tillis

  Two, Here And There, Casinos

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• And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

  John Cornyn

  Stay Strong, Home, Unemployment

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

  Harry Reid

  People, Streets, Prove

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

  Kenny Guinn

  Tourism, Climate, Double Standard

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• When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

  Ruth Brown

  Kings, Years, People

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• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

  Walter Wykes

  Vegas, Oddities, Cities

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• The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.

  Kenny Guinn

  And Love, Spirit, States

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• When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?

  Wanda Sykes

  New York, Gay, California

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• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Horse, Fun, Book

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, History, Gold

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• During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Fate, Errors, Safety

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• The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.

  Harry Reid

  Cowboy, Years, People

  "Harry Reid and the Cowboy Poets". www.newyorker.com. March 08, 2011.

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• Over the weekend, John Kerry - the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on - he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he's so confident that he's started nailing that intern again.

  David Letterman

  Moving, Weekend, Thinking

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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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• Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.

  Jim Gibbons

  Land, Community, Rural Communities

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