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" According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
" After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum. "
Hilary Mason
" After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer. "
Tess Gerritsen
" After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island. "
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
" Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else. "
Colin Jost
" 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
" A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' "
Bertrand Piccard
" And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. "
William Scranton
" And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures. "
Ellen Page
" An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. "
Paul Theroux
" Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. "
Michael Dirda
" Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings. "
Martin Filler
" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
Laurie Anderson
" As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
" As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali. "
Richard Branson
" A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. "
Jean-Francois Lyotard
" As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it. "
T. C. Boyle
" As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable. "
Christopher Columbus
" As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year. "
Amy J. Berg
" As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation. "
Phil Lord
" At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. "
John Millington Synge
" 'Athletico Mince' started life as a football podcast but has dropped the football, unless the latest on the state of the 'hair island' atop Steve McLaren's head is your idea of football coverage. "
David Hepworth
" Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. "
Charles Sturt
" Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali. "
Chip Conley
" Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. "
John Muir
" Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs. "
Gina Raimondo
" Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me. "
Luvvie Ajayi
" Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day. "
Theo Rossi
" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "
Douglas Coupland
" Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne. "
Gary Vaynerchuk
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