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  • I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it.

    Thinking   Animal   Tree  
  • I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

    Source: www.fanpop.com
  • I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

    War   Believe   Home  
    "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.
  • Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.

    Airports   Iraq   Pockets  
    Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
  • What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  • I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

  • Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  • My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

    Teacher   Brother   Jobs  
  • Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

    Tombstone   Years   Space  
    High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.
  • It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.

    Running   Children   Want  
    "What I've Learned: Carolyn Murphy" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.

    Latin   Yellow   America  
  • Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

    "Costa Rica ready to appeal to higher bodies in border dispute". www.cnn.com. November 10, 2010.
  • I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.

  • The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded.

  • If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for a more effective and comprehensive response

    War   Believe   Drug  
  • I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

  • Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

    Country   Beach   Army  
  • A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

    Trying   Costa Rica   Wow  
    "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
  • According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

    Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963
  • Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  • Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

    Life   Travel   Laughter  
    Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam
  • I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

    "Costa Rica elects first woman president". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2010.
  • Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development based upon harmony with nature; solidarity and social inclusion; economic and trade opening; development of our human resources, and innovation.

  • I'm an equestrian, so I like to ride. Ride horses, I love to hike with my dog, love to travel. Most recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved.

    Dog   Horse   Costa Rica  
    "Kristanna Loken for 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2003.
  • For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc., but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama and then they have nowhere to go because those countries are not - for example, in Nicaragua, the border was closed. I've always said that I'm open to a study on how can it be changed.

    Country   Years   America  
    Source: www.univision.com
  • When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

    Country   Latin   America  
  • The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

  • It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?

    "Iron Maiden: Flight 666". Documentary, Music, 2009.
  • Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

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