Carl Hiaasen Quotes

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeBusinessTrainingPeopleWorld

We in the NFL unquestionably are in sports and competition, but we're also in entertainment, and that's the entertainment capital of the world. It just bowls you over when you see the opportunity in L.A.

Jerry Jones

OpportunitySportsCompetitionWorld

All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in a bathing suit. It was not something that was wonderful for me. It offered a lot of really great opportunities for me. But ultimately, it's a hard job because it's based solely on what your body looks like, what you look like.

Melissa Ordway

GreatTimeJobMeOpportunitiesYou

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

SmartPeopleThinkCountryHealthy

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

LeaderOrganizationYouThreeTop

I'm not a natural born performer.

Amy Winehouse

BornNaturalPerformer

For the most part, people think in ordinary life without bringing order into their thoughts. The guiding principles and epochs of human development and planetary evolution, the great viewpoints which have been opened by the initiates, bring thought into ordered forms. All of this is a part of Rosicrucian training. It is called the Study.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeGreatTrainingPeopleThoughts

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Mike Gordon

GratefulMeInfluenceToo MuchDead

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Don King

FootballAmericanFanArdent

In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But as the days progressed, I learnt to handle them much better.

Dhanush

BeginningBetterLooksNowUpDays

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

Seth Shostak

HealthMoneyIntelligenceSearchTax

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

Scooter Braun

JobPeopleThingsRationalMaking

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Lily Tomlin

WarPeopleThinkProfitWouldGuess

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