Florida Quotes

• Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

  Jeb Bush

  Unique, Diversity, House

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• Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

  Douglas Coupland

  Found, Oneself, Ifs

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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

  Ric Keller

  Vacation, Numbers, World

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• The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

  Ann Coulter

  Finals, Literature, Demand

  "Coulter: Liberals are evil" by Bobby Eagle, www.freerepublic.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

  Jay Leno

  Baseball, Running, Hurt

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Environmental, Upheaval

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• The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

  Kendrick Meek

  Class, People, Pay

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• President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.

  Jay Leno

  Strong, Believe, Iraq

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• Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Love You, Kids

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Grief, Years

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• Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Country, California

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  Scott Putesky

  Rockets, Necks, Harmony

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• Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

  Walt Disney

  Blessing, Epcot, Land

  "EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

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• My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Moving, Funny Relationship, Law

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Hair

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

  Blaize Clement

  August, Way, Reminding

  Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.43, Minotaur Books

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• I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California.

  Laura Harrington

  Spring, Thinking, Texas

  "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.

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• One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

  Dave Barry

  Animal, Snakes, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

  John Updike

  Light, Illumination, White

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.75, Random House

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• I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.

  George Carlin

  Age, Temperature, 80s

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• My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

  Daniel Tosh

  Excuse, Grew Up, Grew

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2012

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• President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.

  Charlie Crist

  Strong, Mean, America

  "Crist endorses Obama". www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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• I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Mom, Woods, Way

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Land

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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