Carl Hiaasen Quotes
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.
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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
