I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.
Michael Grimm
TimeJobDoingBadBad BoyIsland
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
David Blaine
DoingGoIslandRopeOutHang
Unless I move to a desert island with poor reception, I'll never stop speaking out!
Ana Navarro
DesertStopIslandPoorNeverOut
'Return To Nim's Island', I was so honored to be asked to play the role of Nim because I loved the original film, the 2008 film 'Nim's Island.'
Bindi Irwin
LovedPlayIslandReturnHonored
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
Sonny Rollins
MotherAdaptIslandBecomeMelody
From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.
Alex Berenson
LifeLongHolocaustIslandMore
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Robert Creeley
BookYouWonderPlaceIslandFirst
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
Vinny Guadagnino
CollegeThreeIslandYearsHalf
I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.
Viola Davis
GirlSchoolBlackIslandCount
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Rosemary Mahoney
CalmSlowFindIslandBecomeHigh
I started a business with my cousins in Fire Island called 'Wagoneers.' Since there are no cars on the island, we would hustle people at the ferry docks to bring their luggage to their houses in our wagons for a large fee.
Reed Morano
BusinessFirePeopleHustleIsland
I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.
Montel Williams
ParisIslandWillNeverMilitary
I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.
Nelson Mandela
LifeBackIslandFirstTakenTrial
Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it.
Juan Pablo Galavis
LoveLakeNewIslandZealandNorth
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
James A. Michener
TodayIslandNavyFirstUnitedTent
A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
Jose Andres
AloneTreePeopleIslandPalmGet
I had a dream. I dreamed I was on this island, and there were two hotels, and one hotel was filled with dead people, and the other one wasn't, and I was in the hotel full of dead people.
Frank Dillane
PeopleHotelDreamIslandDeadTwo
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Diane von Furstenberg
BeautifulWaterPinkSandIsland
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
Edward Heath
PeopleSmallIslandMaySmall People
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
Donella Meadows
PerfectionThreeIslandFantasyOut
We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
W. H. Davies
BusinessFashionLongIslandPlaces
Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.
Christopher Atkins
TogetherIslandSpecialUpSense
He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.
Clairo
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