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Island Quotes
No place stands entirely alone.
This page brings together quotes about islands as places of memory, transit, and story, from a call to bear witness for a community to a documentary that resisted familiar crime-film conventions. Related themes continue in the First collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.
- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.
- Nov 07, 2020
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.
- Northwest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.
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- Nov 07, 2020