Carl Hiaasen Quotes

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can be for someone without being against someone else.

Joe Andrew

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I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

Joan Armatrading

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Working with Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch was incredible.

John Leguizamo

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True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

Maurice Saatchi

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To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

Jefferson Davis

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I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.

Jeff Kinney

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Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unfortunate. I'm sure humanists would say much the same, without God.

Simon Hoggart

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A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

Missy Franklin

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If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Dean Norris

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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

William Nicholson

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I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.

Peter Sellers

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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