Pacific Quotes - Page 3

• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

  Holland Smith

  Beach, Marine, Battle

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• I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Art, Rain, Native American

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

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• Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

  Jose Rizal

  Civilization, Firsts

  Annotation to "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" by Antonio de Morga,

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.113, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Sunshine

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• When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Honor, Enemy

  Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.

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• The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Japan, Games

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• The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Chinese, Grandfather

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• Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Rivers, Source

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.191

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• In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

  Mario Batali

  Growing Up, Weekend, Simple

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  Art Donovan

  Marine, Nuts, July

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• The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.

  Robert Reich

  Track, Watches, Video

  FaceBook post by Robert Reich from May 01, 2015

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• Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

  George Packer

  Oil, Apples, Google

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

  David Ayer

  War, Military, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

  John Muir

  Fire, Mountain, Coast

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.739, Library of America

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• It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, San Francisco, America

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• I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

  Jordan Peele

  African American, Age, Asian

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.

  Vladimir Putin

  Done, World, Opinion

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Economic Sanctions, Leader

  Source: www.rt.com

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• [Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade with Asia.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Rip, Talking, Numbers

  Source: wwd.com

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• Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

  Dar Williams

  Song, New York, Ocean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the story. And we heard about Taika from people in the South Pacific that we talked to.

  Ron Clements

  Girl, Ocean, People

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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