Carl Hiaasen Quotes
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
Ramez Naam
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
Kat Edmonson
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
Rachel Griffiths
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
Fidel Castro
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Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.
Aerin Lauder
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Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
Lee Loevinger
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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
Jen Lancaster
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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When we overestimate the benefits of exercise, underestimate how many calories we eat, and overcompensate for a job well done, exercise is really a false protection from fattening food.
Kyle Hill
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen