Island Quotes
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I just need to go to like an island or something.
Andre Johnson
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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Michael D. Higgins
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For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.
Michael Jeffery
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
Esperanza Spalding
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That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
Steven Strait
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Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
Al Aronowitz
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Life on this island is slim pickings if you have ambition.
Carrie Fletcher
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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
William Styron
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I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
Sean Spicer
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
Samuel Schmid
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Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
Amanda Craig
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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
Ken Howard
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
Mitch Kapor
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On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
Sharon Bolton
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There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
Billy Joel
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
George Bernard Shaw
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
Paul Mazursky
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
Laurie Anderson
