quotes about Alaska
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: License To Steal, Album: Last Days of the Century, 1988
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
-- Aldo Leopold -
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
-- Amelia Barr -
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
-- Amory Lovins -
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These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.
-- Ben KlassenSource : "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 3), 1973.
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Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.
-- Bob Ross -
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'
-- Brian Boitano -
Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and appear on track to do so in a runoff next month in Louisiana. At the same time, voters kept Republicans in GOP seats in heavily contested races in Georgia, Kansas, and Kentucky. That is at least ten, and as many as a dozen, tough races, without a single Republican seat changing hands. Tuesday's voting was a wave alright - a very anti-Democratic wave.
-- Byron York -
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Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
-- C.P. Snow -
I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
-- Carly SchroederSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Carly Schroeder Kicks the Winning Goal in Gracie" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 29, 2007.
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There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
-- Carol Alt -
This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.
-- Chan Ho Park -
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
-- Dan Miller -
Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?
-- Dana StabenowSource : Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press
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What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.
-- Darby Stanchfield -
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'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
-- Dee Dee MyersSource : "Sarah Palin: A Sleight of Gender?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2008.
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I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.
-- Derek Theler -
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.
-- Edward Abbey -
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Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.
-- Ellen Meloy -
I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.
-- Emile Hirsch -
I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.
-- Emily Blunt -
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One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
-- Frank Murkowski -
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
-- Frank Murkowski -
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
-- Gloria Stuart -
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
-- Harrison Birtwistle -
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
-- Harry A. Blackmun -
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
-- Helen Fielding -
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
-- Henri Matisse -
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
-- Homer -
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Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
-- Hudson StuckSource : Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”
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The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
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Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'
-- John F. Kerry -
You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.
-- John Green -
Have you really read all those books in your room?†Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
-- John Green -
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.
-- John Hoeven -
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
-- John Muir -
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
-- John Philip Sousa -
We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.
-- John W. SnowSource : "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.
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Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.
-- Jon Krakauer -
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Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
-- Juan Williams -
I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.
-- Katey Walter -
The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.
-- Kenny Marchant -
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
-- Larry Niven -
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They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
-- Linda Hamilton -
If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.
-- Linda SunshineSource : Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much... And Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, Three Rivers Press
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So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
-- Lindy Boggs -
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I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.
-- Lisa Loeb -
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.
-- Lisa Murkowski -
There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
-- Lisa Murkowski -
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
-- Mac Thornberry -
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The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ***** kicked.
-- Mark TwightSource : Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”
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We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.
-- Martin Milner -
With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili -
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
-- Niels Bohr -
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He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.
-- Nora Roberts -
I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.
-- Paula Poundstone -
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
-- Pierre Salinger -
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
-- Richard Widmark -
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.
-- Robert D Bullard -
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
-- Sam Abell -
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
-- Sarah Palin -
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.
-- Sarah Palin -
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.
-- Sean Connery -
The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.
-- Sebastiao Salgado -
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
-- Stevie Nicks -
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In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.
-- Tamae Watanabe -
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
-- Tom Bodett -
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.
-- Tom Bodett -
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.
-- Tom Bodett -
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We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.
-- Tom Coburn -
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
-- Vinnie Jones -
I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
-- Walter Martin -
I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.
-- Werner Herzog -
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I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.
-- Will Estes -
Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.
-- Alan RobertsonSource : Source: www1.cbn.com
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Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.
-- Alan RobertsonSource : Source: www1.cbn.com
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My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.
-- Andrew SkurkaSource : Source: ryanjordan.com
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The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.
-- Larry Trask -
The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.
-- Lawrence Kaplan -
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.
-- Sam Champion -
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Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
-- Sharon Tate -
We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.
-- Sylvia Mathews BurwellSource : Source: www.glamour.com
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After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.
-- Leigh NewmanSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.
-- Lisa MurkowskiSource : "Murkowski for Mitt" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. December 2, 2011.