Coast Quotes - Page 8

• When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

  Bonnie Raitt

  California Coast, Oil, Issues

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• The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

  Tyga

  Rap, Albums, West Coast

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

  Ray Liotta

  Jersey, East, Persons

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

  Brody Jenner

  Dodge, Driving, Malibu

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• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

  Robert Adams

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

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• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  Gary Burton

  Player, Boston, East

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• Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, People, Three

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• You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Heart, Thinking

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• Americans are desperately, here on the West Coast, buying up and hoarding iodine pills... Isn't it great that in a land that is divided between conservative morons and liberal pussies, somehow we have managed to find a way to pull together and behave like moronic pussies?

  Bill Maher

  Iodine, Land, Pussy

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• I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
  had made him fugitive: he was the first
  to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
  as Italy and the Lavinian shores
  Across the lands and waters he was battered
  beneath the violence of the high ones for
  the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

  Virgil

  Fate, Journey, Men

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• Don't coast through life without a passion.

  John Piper

  Passion, Waste Of Life

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

  John Dyer

  Years, Degrees, Different

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

  John Gay

  Night, Years, Frost

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.19

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• That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

  Don Marquis

  Atheism, Saws, Puritan

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.69, Doubleday

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• If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

  Danny Boyle

  New York, Thinking, Hollywood

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Leave your coast to discover your true self!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Self, True Self

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• Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.

  John Cheever

  Men, Thinking, Office

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Character, Cities, People

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around me as I sit at my typewriter in the middle of a field.

  Sara Cox

  Horse, Hair, Typewriters

  "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• I eternally fight internal battles about developing things that only appeal to the East Coast and the West Coast. For years I've been trying to do a Western, nobody's interested in doing a Western, how can that be?

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Fighting, Years, Battle

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was gonna open a gym and was in negotiation to buy the gym I was working out at. It was a small mom-and-pop and (the owner) wanted to move back to the west coast. My wife at (that) time came down with skin cancer.

  Drew Waters

  Mom, Cancer, Moving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Weather, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

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