Carl Hiaasen Quotes
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.