Florida Quotes - Page 15

• Two weeks ago at the Greater Glory Gathering Virginia Beach, the Lord spoke to me about contending for a greater outpouring of his presence, signs, and wonders. During this prophetic experience I saw the Revival Healing Angel that had visited us in Lakeland, Florida.

  Todd Bentley

  Beach, Healing, Angel

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• I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.

  Bart Millard

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Mr. Bush is an illegitimate President. In Florida, his brother Jeb deleted many black voters from the electoral registers. So this President is the result of a fraud.

  Hugo Chavez

  Brother, Black, President

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Doctors, Waiting Rooms, Oklahoma

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• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Groups, Citizenship, Desperate

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Brother, Names, White

  "Gates Unlocked!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

  Scotty McCreery

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Scotty McCreery on ‘See You Tonight,’ Brad Paisley and country lyrics". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

  Sidney Poitier

  Running, Racism, People

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• I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

  Sidney Poitier

  Racism

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• I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

  John Vanderslice

  Confusing, Sound, Records

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.

  Ted Cruz

  Immigration, Campaigns, News

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

  Marco Rubio

  Artist, Vote, Trump

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.

  Edward Said

  School, Speak English, Class

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

  Jamie Dimon

  California, People, Add

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Artist, Voting

  Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate in Detroit, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2016.

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• But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

  John Green

  Doors, House, Miracle

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Daughter, Stupid

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bachmann to Bash Perry; NBC Debate Coverage Promotes GOP Infighting". Transcript of the Interview with Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. September 13, 2011.

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• God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

  Lou Dobbs

  God, Bless, Court

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 6, 2006.

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• When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held, will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

  Robert Lewis Hinkle

  Sex, Gay, Views

  "Federal judge strikes down Florida's ban on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2014.

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• I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

  Davy Jones

  Retirement, Reading, People

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• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Sound, World

  "Sunshine satirist" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2004.

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• Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Blessing, Unique

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• I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell my coaches that we shouldn't be losing kids to Clemson. Charlie Strong responded ‘coach have you ever actually been to Clemson?’ I hadn’t but I’ll tell you what, I’ve been here now and I get it. This is an exceptional, special place.

  Urban Meyer

  Strong, Kids, Coaching

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• I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.

  Bob Dole

  Thinking, California, Orange

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• I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

  Mickey Rivers

  Differences, Climax

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