Alaska Quotes - Page 10

• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Eagles

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• In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.

  Martha Stout

  Lying, Men, Hunting

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• Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

  John Green

  Boys, Cooking, Dinner

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.73, Penguin

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• A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

  Henny Youngman

  Years, Rosary, Bishops

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• On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'

  Brian Boitano

  Sports, Ideas, Islands

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• We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.

  Tom Coburn

  Islands, Bridges, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

  John Green

  Different, Matter, You Left Me

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

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• Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

  Juan Williams

  Montana, Red, Tides

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• We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Girl, Book, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Mountain, Different, Mckinley

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• Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

  George Will

  Party, Office, President

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• Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

  Ron Fournier

  Memories, Names, Accomplishment

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• Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

  Tom Bodett

  Roots, Petitions, Equal

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• Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

  John Green

  Obvious, Asks

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.46, Penguin

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• I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

  John Green

  Sweet, Flirty, One Day

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Powerful, Eye, America

  "The question is: Can Palin give a coherent answer?". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. September 26, 2008.

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• And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans.

  Sarah Palin

  Development, Benefits, Unions

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• They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Islands, Russia, Doors

  "ABC News" with Charlie Gibson, abcnews.go.com. September 11, 2008.

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• I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.

  Katey Walter

  Lakes, Melting, Fields

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• I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

  Andrea Fay Friedman

  Daughter, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "'Family Guy' actress with Down Syndrome, Andrea Fay Friedman, fires back at Sarah Palin" by Nail Nagraj, www.nydailynews.com. February 19, 2010.

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• An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.

  Robert D Bullard

  New York, Native American, Florida

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• These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.

  Ben Klassen

  Destiny, Men, Rocks

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 3), 1973.

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• I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

  John Green

  Couple, Memories, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

  Linda Hamilton

  Thinking, Sea, Fishing

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• Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

  John Green

  Fate, Self, Want

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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