Carl Hiaasen Quotes
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.Carl Hiaasen
Quotes to Explore
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
Nancy Roman -
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin -
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
Ted Dekker -
Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen -
I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
Yuna -
I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand -
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
Karen Elson
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
Mac Davis -
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
Tariq Ali -
My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
Nate Robinson -
When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
Victoria Jackson -
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
Felix Dennis -
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
Nancy Pelosi
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.
Andrej Kiska -
On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar -
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer -
What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
Beth Brooke -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen