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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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'
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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
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When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.
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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: why would anyone want their children to be the brightest? Academia is a lonely world.
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
