Top 75 Utah Quotes

There’s no nightlife in Utah.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

It’s been so much fun for me here in Utah and growing up here, starting a family, growing from a basketball standpoint, growing from just a man standpoint.

To be honest, I love being in Utah so I think most people have the wrong idea about the city, about the place.

I know guys in the league say, ‘Oh yeah, I love X, Y, Z city.’ But man, I genuinely love Utah.

Everything that allowed me to come here to Utah has been great.

As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah’s measurable business success.

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-’70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

I was born and raised in southern Utah.

Trying to fuse a Jewish-Russian family with a Mormon family from Utah definitely is a challenge.

Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It’s a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.

I never would have thought this would happen, me playing for Utah. It’s like coming around full circle for me and my family. We love it, we embrace it.

Because, you know, you’re in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.

There was a year in Utah when we were in the 20s in wins, then 30s, then 40s, and my last year we scratched for 50. I’m certainly going to build on that experience here in Charlotte.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah – it’s like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

Out in Utah, it’s chill, laid-back. There’s not a lot of rah-rah stuff going on. You can focus on your job, your career, whatever else you have going on.

Utah will always be special to me. They were the school that gave me an opportunity, and I grew so much as a person and player there.

Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.

I’ve never been the top dog. I’ve always been the underdog. And that’s why I relate so much to Utah, because we’re underdogs, we’re overlooked, kind of thought of as an afterthought.

I still love Utah. I miss being out there, but sometimes you have to move on and try new things.

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.

I worked hard and had support from my family, but it was a grind at Utah State.

Everyone talks about Utah riding, slickrock and all that. I go through the mountain-bike magazines at the shop, and I think, ‘That’d be awesome.’

The majority of Utah’s citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it – the state religion demands it.

I love everything about being in Utah. I’ll never change it. I don’t need the big market to be happy.

Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.

It’s a unique atmosphere in Utah, that I don’t think a lot of other teams have around the league.

Utah is America’s best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed – and we have the track record to prove it.

There’s a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.

I appreciated all the support and love that I had from not only BYU fans and people from Utah, but all over the country.

Everybody kind of passed up on me; a lot of the teams I played against said I was too short, I wasn’t strong enough, I wasn’t fast enough, I wasn’t physical enough. The only team that believed in me was Utah State.

When I first left Indianapolis, I was only 20 years old and moved out to Utah and had no friends or family there. I had my teammates but I was the youngest player and everyone had a family so video games and being able to play them with my friends, it was like I was hanging out with them.

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons – increasingly women as well as men – spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in ‘Julius Caesar.’

I’m married to a man from Utah, and I talk about that very openly.

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

After Rio, I joined the gymnastics team at the University of Utah. It was a hard transition, because I’ve always competed in elite gymnastics, where we throw big skills. In college, you don’t get any points for difficulty, but once I got the hang of it, it was a piece of cake.

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, ‘We’re not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. ‘We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,’ and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

Utah State stayed with me, so I stayed loyal to the people loyal to me.

A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of Cali music, you got a lot of dance music, I think the Jerk was popular back then. It was a lot of the music that you can dance to with your teammates. A lot of hip-hop, rap, R&B, it was really fun. It was live in there.

From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

Barack Obama’s class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah’s government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi… in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people.

I think a sitting senator who’s been there 36 years is not doing a favor to anyone in the state of Utah nor to the country.

Lifestyle-wise, like L.A. in general, Utah is very conservative, very laid back, and L.A. is nothing like that.

Utah’s economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.

It’s not just about doing things in Utah or in France. It’s about doing things everywhere and having an impact everywhere. There are a lot of charities that do a remarkable job that just don’t have much light and much support.