Carl Hiaasen Quotes

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1953

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My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Andy Behrman

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One thing that I have learnt from many senior actors is that you can never take anything for granted. Whether one is working with the best director or a first-time director, every experience teaches you a lot.

Sidharth Malhotra

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The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited.

Roger Zelazny

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I am all for trying out various kinds of hair styles. I have even worn a wig earlier in a film where I essayed the part of a woman.

Riteish Deshmukh

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Roland Barthes

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We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

Miguel Nicolelis

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One person's car is another person's scenery.

Jonathan Ive

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As far as success goes, I've never really got too excited about losing or winning.

Chrissie Hynde

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I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.

Colleen Ballinger

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It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.

Brendon Urie

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People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

Tig Notaro

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

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