#columbia

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. ↗

— Russell Banks

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I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling. ↗

— Chris Evans

#columbia #doing #god #going #hit

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ↗

— James Tobin

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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia. ↗

— Jack White

#columbia #come #even #exists #get

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#chicago #columbia #creative #harvard #imaginative

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#crew #dreams #inspired #lost #remain

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#aware #columbia #el salvador #haiti #happens

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years. ↗

— David Guterson

#basin #columbia #doors #entire #feeling