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An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.
A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.
I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.'
I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.
When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.
No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.
Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.
The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island.
If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.
So, I represent the 1st Congressional District of New York. It's on the east end of Long Island. This is Suffolk County.
I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.
I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
I grew up on a tiny island called Guernsey, very small population, very isolated culturally but very beautiful and serene.
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming.
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
I wanted to prove to people it doesn't matter if you come from a small little island: that you can make it in this industry.
I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... They shaped me, molded my music.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island nation.
You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.
The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.