Islands Quotes - Page 8

• Both of us [me and Donald Trump] were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And so for the president-elect that meant that what - he describes himself this way, the kid from Queens would go to Manhattan Island and build the big buildings.

  Mike Pence

  Queens, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Compassion, Europe, Safety

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town.

  Joe Rogan

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Sea, People, Genius

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Family And Friends, No Friends, Way

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agreement, Talking, Two

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Girl, Calling, Remembered

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds; they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.

  David Copperfield

  Baby, Bird, Bahamas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

  Nat Hentoff

  Fire, Years, Wife

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Desert, Bigs, Austen

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• Boxing on Long Island - there is history there. It's been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know, we are in kind of a resurgence now. We are putting our show there constantly - Star Boxing shows at the Paramount have drawn big crowds over the years and there is a lot of up and coming talent there now. You see more and more gyms with competitive professional fighters.

  Chris Algieri

  Stars, Years, Long

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then we end on the beach in the Caribbean filming for two days in the sea. That was fun. We literally did the last shot as the sun was coming up in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. It was a nice way to end it, because they were considering shooting it in the sea in Vancouver, which would not have worked at all.

  Robert Pattinson

  Beach, Fun, Nice

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.

  Paul Laffoley

  College, Yankees, Black

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Bridges, Groups

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being by pushing buttons. It's not intuitive anymore. That's the internet. Before the net, we would have gone to the community or our families to see what we should do. We often feel more isolated on our own little islands because of it.

  Nelly Furtado

  Thinking, Community, Decision

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Stories, Conservative

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Needs, Citizens

  Source: www.rt.com

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• You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

  Robert Bly

  Long, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

  Frederick Soddy

  Coal, Atomic Energy, Ratios

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• Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, 4th Of July, Fire

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• Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.

  Amira Hass

  Ocean, Israel, Europe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Queens, Kings

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• The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Ocean, Ego

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