Florida Quotes - Page 10

• [My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Boys, Guy

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• We have seen that [Zika virus] has caused, and is causing, a whole series of problems for pregnant women and for their unborn children, and we are seeing that it is transmitted by mosquitos, and mosquitos are a serious matter during the summer in Florida. So we are very worried about those funds not being available. There is $500 million dollars available from the Ebola money that was not used. I think it is going to be used immediately.

  Marco Rubio

  Summer, Children, Thinking

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• In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I opened a club, and really got great credit for it. No discrimination against African- Americans, against Muslims, against anybody. And it's a tremendously successful club. And I'm so glad I did it.

  Donald Trump

  Beach, Successful, Community

  Transcript of the First Debate, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

  John Cleese

  Cities, Two, Hours

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• You go to Pennsylvania, you go to Ohio, you go to Florida, you go to any of them. You go upstate New York. Our jobs have fled to Mexico and other places.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, New York, Ohio

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Moving, Passing, Nun

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.217, Booklassic

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• whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

  Rita Mae Brown

  California, Progress, Said

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.14, Bantam

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• Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.

  Jeb Bush

  Gambling, Casinos, Trump

  "All In With Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

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• The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida… and I only lived there for a year.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Crazy, Years

  "Uncommon Interview: Tucker Max". Interview with Jen Glickel, www.chicagomaroon.com. May 17, 2005.

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• We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere. During the summer it can arrive very quickly here in south Florida, in the whole state. In a very hot climate in summer, where mosquitos begin to spread very quickly, it's a very serious threat.

  Marco Rubio

  Summer, Latin, America

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• I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Home, Rising

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The problem with being on the road - especially in a hot place like Florida - is that you can begin to think you're on holiday. You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.

  Boy George

  Holiday, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

  Clara Jeffery

  Gun, Law, Political

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within a year, the Eisenhower administration secretly, but formally, decided to overthrow the government. Then came the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Kennedy administration was furious about the failure of the invasion and immediately launched a major terrorist war and economic war that got harsher through the years. Under these conditions it is kind of amazing that Cuba survived.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Government, Pigs

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with 'political genocide'. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied 'political genocide', a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Islamic, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

  Tom Colicchio

  Couple, Wine, Thinking

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• Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.

  Harold O. J. Brown

  Christian, Religious, New York

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• In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

  Muhammad Ali

  Smart, Kentucky, Names

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

  Jeb Bush

  Enforcement, Want, Death Penalty

  "If You Think Jeb Bush Is A Moderate, Then You Missed His 1994 Campaign" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2015.

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Mermaid, Nineteen, Paradise

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• We ought to be bragging about Florida!

  Rick Scott

  Bragging, Ought

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• I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

  Katherine Harris

  Law, People, States

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• If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

  Katherine Harris

  Law, Justice, Uniforms

  "Katherine Harris Unhappy With 'Recount'". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2008.

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• I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Swamps, Alligators, Wrestler

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

  Don Winslow

  People, Surfing, East

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