Carl Hiaasen Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
Paris Hilton -
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
Dakota Fanning -
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom -
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
Rachel Kushner -
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
Pankaj Mishra
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
Tammy Duckworth -
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell -
The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
Xavier Becerra
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie -
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Origen -
It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
Laura Mvula -
It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
Wanda Sykes -
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth
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Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
John Eldredge -
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
U Thant -
Honor?” “Yes.” “I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.
Nalini Singh -
If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.
Gautama Buddha -
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
Carl Hiaasen