Carl Hiaasen Quotes

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Carl Hiaasen

• School
• Never
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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Never
  • Changes

• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Never
  • Write
  • Boring

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• Love can never be fully explained.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Never
  • For Her

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Strange
  • Beer

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Money
  • Never
  • Prize

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Never
  • Many
  • Sue

• I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Life
  • School

• I ended up landing in London out of high school, and I saw a performance that Vanessa Redgrave gave, just because it was a cheap ticket, and I didn't know what to do with my afternoon, and I went in, and I saw this Eugene O'Neill play, and I sat in the fifth row, and I watched her.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Mom

• 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Lost

• We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Rude

• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • School
  • Never
  • Smart