Carl Hiaasen Quotes
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
Francesca Annis
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
Harlan Ellison
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
Ian MacKaye
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
D. A. Pennebaker
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
Karan Mahajan
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
Bea Arthur
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Edi Rama
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Dana Rohrabacher
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When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
Jim Brown
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
Vincent Van Gogh
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
Abigail Washburn
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
Ernest Hemingway
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
Carl Hiaasen