Florida Quotes - Page 13

• Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

  Craig Fugate

  Debt, States, Feels

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• America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.

  George Will

  Baseball, Spring, Umpires

  "Reform in Baseball as In Life" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. April 2, 2001.

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• In a new campaign ad, Jeb Bush referenced 'The Godfather' and said his nickname used to be 'Veto Corleone' because he vetoed so many bills in Florida. When you're the third person in your family to run for president, maybe you shouldn't bring up a movie trilogy where the third one was clearly the worst.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Campaigns

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• In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Texas, Names

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• I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I ­support their music. Within ­country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

  Miranda Lambert

  Music, Country, Mean

  "ACM Queen Miranda Lambert Dishes on Her Good-Luck Charm for the Big Night and the Bro-Country Trend: 'There's Room for Everyone'". Interview with Chuck Arnold, www.billboard.com. April 13, 2015.

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• It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

  Stephen Young

  Home, Careers, Years

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• I've got a record in Florida. I'm proud of my dad, and I'm certainly proud of my brother. In Florida, they called me Jeb, because I earned it.

  Marco Rubio

  Brother, Dad, Records

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, School, Choices

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

  Tyler Oakley

  California, Michigan, London

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• There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

  Gary Zukav

  Soul, Canada, Life Is

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

  Ransom Riggs

  Children, Real, Home

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

  Donald Trump

  Immigration, Reform, Amnesty

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Aunt, House

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• I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

  Michael Moore

  Popular Vote, Vote, Knows

  "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore". March 13, 2002.

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• I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."

  Steven Wright

  Dog, New York, Done

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• Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

  Brandon Thomas

  Nice, Journey, Clubs

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• The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

  Barry Manilow

  Dark, Night, Years

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.

  Bill Maher

  Winning, Thinking, California

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• There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.

  Mickey Rooney

  Party, Mean, Guy

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• Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

  John Oliver

  Mean, Gun, Way

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• I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

  Dave Barry

  People, House, Feelings

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• Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Country, Couple

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• I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

  Bill Burton

  Thinking, Ohio, Pennsylvania

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

  Dana Gould

  Python, Giants, Income

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 15, 2012

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