Carl Hiaasen Quotes
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.Carl Hiaasen
Quotes to Explore
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid -
Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
Imran Amed -
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
Madeline Zima -
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
Walter O'Brien -
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
Gayle Forman
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
Lady Gaga -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur -
You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
Ice Cube -
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns -
I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
J. R. Smith
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
Kirk Hammett Metallica -
The revolution begins at home.
Cherrie Moraga -
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain -
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes -
They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.
Jay McShann -
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
Carl Hiaasen