Nevada Quotes - Page 2

• Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Past, History, Gold

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• We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.

  Jon Porter

  Cancer, Dollars, Research

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• The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.

  Harry Reid

  Cowboy, Years, People

  "Harry Reid and the Cowboy Poets". www.newyorker.com. March 08, 2011.

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• Over the weekend, John Kerry - the big John Kerry juggernaut moves on - he won primaries in Washington D.C., Nevada and, I think, Canada. And he's so confident that he's started nailing that intern again.

  David Letterman

  Moving, Weekend, Thinking

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• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Horse, Fun, Book

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Fate, Errors, Safety

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• As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Children, Space

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

  Jon Porter

  Senior, Country, Cutting

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• I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

  Raymond Carver

  Moving

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.133, Vintage

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• Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

  Grover Norquist

  Men, Burning, Idiot

  Grover Norquist @GroverNorquist, twitter.com. July 1, 2012.

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• For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  Neil Postman

  Vegas, Messages, Television

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• My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a teenager, I had a sticker in my car with a picture of a bear scratching himself on the tree, and under it was the saying, 'If it feels good, do it!' That was the motto of the '60s and the '70s, and certainly it is the motto today. The image of the bear scratching himself highlights a view of human beings as animals, and that people should do what pleases them at the moment without a thought to the broader long-term consequences of their actions.

  Rick Santorum

  Teenager, Animal, Views

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• Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.

  Kenny Guinn

  Gamer, Economy, Backbone

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• Hillary's opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn't much difference in how America did when I was president and how America's done under President Bush. Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Two, Differences

  "Will Hillary’s Campaign Self-Destruct (again)?" by Arnold Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Sadness, Past, Rocks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.79, Three Rivers Press

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

  P. W. Singer

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Dad, Real, Thinking

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.345, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Rights, Issues

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• If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

  Edgar Cayce

  Lakes, Earthquakes, California

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• Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Gambling

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Regret, Home, Numbers

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• Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we're collecting stuff in cyberspace we're not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Ebay, Cyberspace

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Couple, Media

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