Dakota Quotes

When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

Dakota Johnson

Character, Thinking, Social Network

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Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

Howard Dean

New York, Oklahoma, Texas

Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

Gary Hamel

Change, Horse, Together

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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Jodie Foster

Young

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I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

Nora Roberts

Lying, Tourists, Naked

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Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

Richelle Mead

Two, Doe, Looks

Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.140, Penguin

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To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.

Susan Mallery

Girlfriend, Brother, Kings

Susan Mallery (2010). “Almost Perfect”, p.352, HQN Books

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Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

Rick Riordan

Bed, Togas, Ghost

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She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Mark Millar

Wish, Pockets, Rambo

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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

Ezra Pound

Thinking, Apathy, Constitution

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I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

Jobs, Support, Trying

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The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

Dexter Filkins

Ignorance, Army, Years

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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Sarah Vowell

Silence, Guy, Loner

FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Bob Feller

Gun, Russia, Class

"For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

Chuck Palahniuk

Office, Boss, Cards

Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

Dick Gephardt

Light, Iowa, Tuesday

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North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

Bobby Heenan

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Learning, College, Dust

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When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

George McGovern

Growing Up, War, Debt

"George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.

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Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

Kent Conrad

Jobs, Wind, Dollars

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It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

Kent Conrad

Children, Mean, Vegetables

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Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Dave Barry

Native American, Men, Mutual Benefit

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

New York, Real, Thinking

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But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

Kate Jacobs

Christmas, Eye, Winter

Kate Jacobs (2009). “Knit the Season”, p.8, Penguin

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Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

Jeremy Clarkson

Zoos, Animal, Years

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