Island Quotes
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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Honestly, some of the things that happen will absolutely shock people. It's very unlike what people think of Gilligan's Island...viewers will absolutely be entertained.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
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I’ll go and buy an island and live underwater in a re-breather with Kleenex boxes on my feet.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
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Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world...
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I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.
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If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring?
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.
