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  • In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful. -- Steve Guttenberg
  • I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. -- Calamity Jane
  • Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah. -- Bridget Hall
  • Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. -- Robert Redford
  • Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. -- Paul D. Boyer
  • Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. -- Martin Fleischmann
  • I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me. -- Wilford Brimley
  • Other people have analysis. I have Utah. -- Robert Redford
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  • I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC. -- Joe Lando
  • 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
  • On Tuesday, Utah Candidate Mia Love became the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. She's also a Mormon. Yeah, a black female Republican Mormon. Even unicorns are saying, 'Not buyin' it.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations. -- Elon Musk
  • I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah. -- John Starks
  • As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven. -- Jack Kerouac
  • I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State... there was no surplus of women. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
  • My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.' -- Katy Mixon
  • Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good. -- Darrel Ray
  • While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies. -- Stewart Udall
  • I was born and raised in southern Utah. -- Ally Condie
  • Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central. -- Trey Parker
  • Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah. -- Mia Love
  • I think a sitting senator who's been there 36 years is not doing a favor to anyone in the state of Utah nor to the country. -- Scott Howell
  • I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains. -- Gordon Gee
  • There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be. -- David Archuleta
  • Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah. -- Brandon Flowers
  • For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden. -- Karl Malone
  • It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out. -- Darren Boyd
  • I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. -- George Strait
  • ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944. -- Fawn M. Brodie
  • If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God. -- Tom Green
  • When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips. -- Utah Phillips
  • I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood. -- Mike Lookinland
  • All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette. -- Bob Costas
  • Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah. -- Rob Bishop
  • Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake. -- Karl Malone
  • Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah. -- Richard Benjamin
  • My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. -- Edward Abbey
  • In Utah, where the states` Mormon GOP electorate is especially unfavorable to [Donald] Trump. -- Chris Hayes
  • A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah, -- Josh Howard
  • I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture -- Bert McCracken
  • Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette. -- David Letterman
  • Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah. -- Lynne Cheney
  • Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement. -- David Letterman
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  • If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? -- Abraham Lincoln
  • The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church. -- Andrew Solomon
  • I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything -- Max Hall
  • I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc. -- Dave Barry
  • I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah. -- Donny Osmond
  • 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points. -- Bob Costas
  • Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling -- John Warren Kindt
  • Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah. -- LaVell Edwards
  • Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.... -- Edward Abbey
  • I've had opportunities. But I'm happy at Utah. I can do a lot of nice things and I love the kids. We work hard and we have fun. -- Rick Majerus
  • It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic. -- Brigham Young
  • Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah. -- Daniel Tosh
  • I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it. -- Dale Murphy
  • Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love. -- Robert Redford
  • In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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  • Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Utah is so wonderful. My greatest memories of Utah are of always being outdoors. It's a very athletic environment that I think gave me a lot of drive to be fit and live well. -- Julianne Hough
  • I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me. -- Rick Majerus
  • How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah. -- Edward Abbey
  • I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out. -- LaVell Edwards
  • It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service. -- Jim Matheson
  • I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here. -- Roma Downey
  • The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids. -- Julianne Hough
  • As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't. -- F. Burton Howard
  • The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West. -- David Roberts
  • Its funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. Its no coincidence these guys get in and get out. -- Darren Boyd
  • Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor. -- Ruth May Fox
  • But in the end he was so tired and hungry that, rather than walk to Utah, he decided to take his chances in a moss-and-puffball suit on a shock pancake thrown into the air by a giant catapult. Besides, the thing was insanely alluring. -- Mark Helprin
  • Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.... -- Edward Abbey
  • Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York. -- Elana Meyers
  • In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world. -- Stuart Campbell
  • My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight. -- Ira Sachs
  • Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
  • The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. -- Ted Cruz
  • Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' -- Tess Gerritsen
  • What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true. -- Mia Love
  • When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit! -- Vanilla Ice
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