Rio Quotes - Page 3

• I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

  Mike Love

  Mother, Home, Years

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Names, Looks

  "Obama’s Action Marks Historic Victory for Immigrant Rights, But Activists Warn of a Long Way to Go". www.democracynow.org. November 21, 2014.

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• The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

  Ted Cruz

  Airports, Isis, Iraq

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  Lapo Elkann

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  Vijender Singh

  Sports, Athlete, Important

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• When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and certainly the native peoples of California who still have their communities intact, it is what they have always known: that we are not apart from nature but a part of it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  California, People, Community

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

  Francisco Costa

  Beach, Museums, People

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• From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Gun, Boys

  Song: The Ballad Of Billy The Kid, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Pie, Vision

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.34, Macmillan

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• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  Jose Padilha

  Criminals, Violence, Wonder

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• The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Men, Air, Impact

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

  Fred Armisen

  New York, Years, Two

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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