Pacific Quotes - Page 6

• [Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Democracy, Progressive

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Opportunity, Class

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

  Barack Obama

  Two, United States, Century

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Agreement, Support

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Interesting, Would Be, East

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  Audie Cornish

  Agreement, Ideas, Partnership

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

  Brenda Strong

  Girl, Growing Up, Tree

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• The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean.

  Jeff Corwin

  Beach, Ocean, Eye

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• No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

  Will Rogers

  Ocean, Two, Knows

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

  Joshua Foer

  Kissing, Culture, Mouths

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• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Thinking, Sea, People

  "What's in your basket, Gael García Bernal?" by Morwenna Ferrier and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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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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• A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

  Kevin Rudd

  Opportunity, Australia, Challenges

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

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• Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

  Steven Spielberg

  Lines, Firsts, Documentaries

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

  Yann Martel

  Gratitude, Ocean, Grateful

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Next Day, Islands, Sea

  Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Fire, Flames

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• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, Wish, Endurance

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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• We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

  Marcel Proust

  Fear, Learning, Essence

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Korea, Issues

  "Panetta: 'Human Side' Makes Pentagon Cuts Tough". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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• Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, Wells, States

  "Panetta on Pentagon Budget: ‘Cutting Almost $500 Billion Is Not Chump Change’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2012.

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• I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

  Matthew Fox

  Space, Islands, Four

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