Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.
And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do. ' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said. . . . Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
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.
This one's for Alaska Young!
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth
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.
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.
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.