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There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.

Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.

No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.