Carl Hiaasen Quotes
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
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Leave off the 'financially'.Let the financial be the result of honest, sincere desire to be and live so that others may know the way also. Good gives the increase. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )
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Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.
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Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze — a poor man would I be if I could not.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
