Carl Hiaasen Quotes

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Carl Hiaasen

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

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• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

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• I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

  

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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

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  • World
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• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

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• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

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• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
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  • Man
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• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
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• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
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• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

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• When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

  

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• I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.

  

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• I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Life
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• It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

  

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• If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Pleasure