Hawaii Quotes - Page 7

• I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Couple, Cells

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Growing Up, Real, Ukulele

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Beach, President, Cocktails

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• I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

  Jonny Weston

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• If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Next Week, San Francisco

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• You know, or three kinds of ice cream bars and you'd see this and like this... okay they could clearly benefit from some more choices and I remember having these discussions with the Japanese because they you know they often like to go to Hawaii for vacation because it was definitely much cheaper for them and I would ask them, "So when you go to Hawaii, you know do eat all these other things?"

  Sheena Iyengar

  Vacation, Ice Cream, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Vacation, Debt, Willing

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.88, Moody Publishers

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• In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Years, Grandfather, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.

  Gavin Rossdale

  New York, Lying, Ocean

  Source: collider.com

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• The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

  Jack Kornfield

  Beach, Hatred, Suffering

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• I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Thinking, Roots

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• There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

  Joe Bastianich

  Chicago, Lucky, World

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• I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.

  Carol Leifer

  Islands, Names, Guy

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• When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

  Desi Arnaz

  Mexico, Sun, Fisherman

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest place in America to live. And I thought it was just a great place to pretend you were born in.

  Craig Ferguson

  America, Study, Born

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• In Hawaii, they're happy to hear that you're filming a show. They love it that people actually come and make use of their beautiful landscapes.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Beautiful, People, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

  Joan Chen

  Mom, Ballet, President

  Source: collider.com

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• Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

  Joan Chen

  San Francisco, Ballet, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

  Maggie Q

  Islands, Cities, Clue

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Adventure, Writing

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• I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it's supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They're really rooted in something.

  Natalie Maines

  Water, People, Appreciate

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  Natalie Maines

  Flower, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home.

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, Beach, Home

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• I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

  Rebecca Mader

  New York, London

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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