Carl Hiaasen Quotes
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.Carl Hiaasen
Quotes to Explore
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
Nancy Roman -
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin -
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
Ted Dekker -
Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid
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I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders -
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
Yuna -
I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand
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Nobody is faster than me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
Karen Elson -
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
Mac Davis -
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
Tariq Ali -
My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
Nate Robinson -
When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
Victoria Jackson
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Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
Andre Benjamin -
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.
Terry Teachout -
I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx -
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
Drew Carey -
I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
Deirdre O'Kane -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen