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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. -- John Muir
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. -- Steven Wright
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. -- Bing Crosby
This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska. -- Jeff Goldblum
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. -- Sarah Palin
America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska. -- Sarah Palin
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
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
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. -- Jeff Goldblum
Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development. -- Frank Murkowski
One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development. -- Frank Murkowski
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again! -- Homer
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. -- William Faulkner
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
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
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
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 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. Snow
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 Stuck
This one's for Alaska Young! -- John Green
Alaska itself is an unusual state. -- Fareed Zakaria
So the lover must struggle for words. -- T. S. Eliot
With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska. -- Mikheil Saakashvili
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska? -- John Green
What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing. -- Darby Stanchfield
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. -- Tom Bodett
The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light. -- Sebastiao Salgado
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. -- John Green
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. -- Will Estes
The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked. -- Mark Twight
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there. -- Aldo Leopold
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.. -- John Green
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. -- John C. Hawkes
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. -- John C. Hawkes
Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We're in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. -- Francis Biddle
I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn`t a foreign country. -- Sarah Palin
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. -- Sarah Palin
Sunny days are the perfect days to spy on people. Especially at night (offer only valid for residents of Alaska). -- Jarod Kintz
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator. -- John Green
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? -- John Green
When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa. -- Jon Stewart
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. -- Sam Abell
Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws. -- Kevin Bleyer
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
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
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination. -- Joe Miller
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
There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming. -- Travis Rice
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
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
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
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up. -- John Green
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
Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians. -- Dennis Miller
We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that. -- Lisa Murkowski
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 always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals ? right next to the mashed potatoes. -- Sarah Palin
The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska. -- Juan Enriquez
I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it. -- Tom Bodett
Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young -- John Green
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska -- John Green
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. -- John Hawkes
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. -- Tom Douglas
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament. -- Vic Ziegel
I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska. -- Dana Stabenow
Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. -- Michael Specter
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 Stabenow
What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska. -- Joe Miller
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
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics. -- Sloane Crosley
I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story. -- Will Hobbs
Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist. -- Sarah Palin
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
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 Schroeder
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
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you. -- Jewel
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
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense. -- John Green
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! -- John Green
As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where"? where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. -- Sarah Palin
I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands. -- Chad Coleman
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 Murkowski
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food. -- John Green
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
I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught. -- Jon Krakauer
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
She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes. -- John Green
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
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
In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun. -- Jimmy Fallon
My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together. -- Dana Stabenow
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island. -- Werner Herzog
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. -- Dennis Washington
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia. -- Ronald Reagan
I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives. -- Amy J. Berg
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 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
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears. -- Joseph Monninger
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do? -- T.C. Boyle
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had. -- Laird Barron
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
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
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person. -- Pico Iyer
There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sarah Palin, part-time Governor of Alaska, is angry because Michele Obama is encouraging kids to eat healthy. Sarah Palin believes the government shouldn't tell us what to do. Sarah Palin believes she should tell us what to do. -- David Letterman
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost. -- Michael Specter
You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready. -- David Letterman
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 Newman
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
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
I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales. -- Miranda Richardson
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
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on. -- William Howard Taft
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life? -- John Green
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things. -- Jewel
Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty. -- Teri Hatcher
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
John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. -- Tom Bodett

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