Alaska Quotes

• Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Feds, Conventionality, Fed Up

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• On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

  Pierre Salinger

  President, Lovers, Obvious

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• A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

  Moliere

  Funny Love, Dog, Teenage Love

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• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Unusual, States

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.mrc.org. October 1, 2008.

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• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Unseen, Literature, Lovers

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• I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

  Jewel

  Home, Debt, Want

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• We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

  Martin Milner

  Russia, Mexico, World

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• We are greater than the sum of our parts.

  John Green

  Life, Teenage, Teens

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Oil, Feet, Wildlife

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• Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

  Stevie Nicks

  Kids, Artist, Wife

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• I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

  John Green

  Heart, Neighbor, Young

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Filled Up, Oil, People

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Stars, Light, America

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• Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

  Hudson Stuck

  Feet, Mountain, Firsts

  Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”

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• If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  I Hate You, Knowing Better, Useless

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

  Lisa Murkowski

  People, Trying, Development

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• At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hurt, Band

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.15, Penguin

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• Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

  Frank Murkowski

  Oil, Development, Gas

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• The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Christmas, Tired

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

  John Green

  Suffering, Labyrinth, Malaria

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

  John Green

  Hipster, War, Winning

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.61, Penguin

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• Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

  John Green

  Wise, Real, Enjoy

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.40, Penguin

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• But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing Better, Useless, Knows

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

  John W. Snow

  Important, Middle East, Energy

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Love Is, Desire

  "Time" magazine, June 26, 1950.

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