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Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress. -- Elle Fanning
I met my wife in South Dakota. -- George McGovern
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that. -- Phil Jackson
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government. -- Laura Ingraham
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? -- Bobby Heenan
You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out. -- Tom Daschle
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. -- Lawrence Welk
By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. -- Tim Johnson
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child. -- Denzel Washington
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. -- Standing Bear
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. -- George McGovern
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. -- Stephanie Herseth
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. -- John Thune
We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy and tourism. We worked very hard to grow all those businesses, and that's what's happening. -- John Hoeven
I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds. -- Kaya Scodelario
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota. -- Gail Collins
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output. -- John Hoeven
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning. -- Dakota Fanning
I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. -- Jodie Foster
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber. -- Bill Bryson
I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress. -- Stephanie Herseth
I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress. -- Stephanie Herseth
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4. -- Mark Millar
Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota. -- Laura Ingraham
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota. -- John Hoeven
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here. -- Bill Kurtis
My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live. -- Tommy Bolin
To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king. -- Susan Mallery
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. -- Lincoln Kirstein
Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries. -- Kevin McCarthy
Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm. -- Bob Dylan
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. -- George McGovern
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie, -- George McGovern
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota. -- Garrison Keillor
I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant. -- Nora Roberts
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. -- Douglas Brinkley
North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home. -- Travis Hafner
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. -- Jeremy Clarkson
For me, the badlands are entirely too naughty. The whole time I was in South Dakota I felt like I needed a spanking. -- Jarod Kintz
My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic. -- Ron Carlson
Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? -- Rick Riordan
We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it. -- Heidi Heitkamp
A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old. -- Craig Ferguson
I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me? -- Elle Fanning
I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, 'My big sister is asking me?' -- Elle Fanning
My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!' -- Jenny Lewis
Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell? -- Bill Maher
The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it. -- Kevin Cramer
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian. -- Richie Havens
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One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented. -- John Hoeven
We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care. -- Heidi Heitkamp
About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia. -- Bob Feller
I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12. -- Elle Fanning
Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian. -- Richelle Mead
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. -- Stephanie Herseth
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future. -- Kent Conrad
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story. -- Adam Beach
Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning. -- Richard Roeper
...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world. -- Al Gore
One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward. -- Mike Rounds
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody. -- Warren Christopher
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning." -- Tao Lin
I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction. -- Chase Iron Eyes
I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans -- Charlie Chaplin
If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota. -- Bill Janklow
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution. -- Ezra Pound
I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park -- Central Park is a much safer place. -- John Thune
I would love to work with Marion Cotillard and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when. -- Elle Fanning
I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when. -- Elle Fanning
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee. -- Stephanie Herseth
I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee. -- Stephanie Herseth
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. -- Kelly Jones
I hereby pledge that, if elected to represent the people of South Dakota, I will never vote to shut down their government, or to place their government in default, in order to force it to act, or to prevent it from acting, on unrelated issues. -- Rick Weiland
We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay. -- John Reuben Zappin
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks. -- Stephanie Herseth
I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks. -- Stephanie Herseth
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous. -- Kent Conrad
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. -- George McGovern
In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. -- Jane Brody
After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister. -- Elle Fanning
After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.' -- Elle Fanning
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning -- Dakota Fanning
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. -- Winona LaDuke
It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking. -- Kaya Scodelario
We have the resources and technology to produce more energy than we consume and break our long-standing dependence on foreign sources of oil. All we need is the will. In fact, there's a path to follow, one that North Dakota blazed over the last decade by building a comprehensive energy plan we called Empower North Dakota. -- John Hoeven
I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl,' and the brilliant Felicity Huffman on 'Desperate Housewives,' but I think my favorite TV job so far was the pilot I shot for the CW Network this year called 'Joey Dakota.' -- Erich Bergen
In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out. -- Dick Gephardt

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