Carl Hiaasen Quotes
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I always dress my way!
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
