Florida Quotes - Page 6

• I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Dancing, Grew Up

  "Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey talk Magic Mike workouts, dance moves and stripping music". Interview with Oliver Franklin-Wallis, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. July 12, 2012.

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• Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

  John Lahr

  Father, Two, Laughing

  "Panic Attack". www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

  Kelly Preston

  Stars, Closest Friends, Closest

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• I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Father, Science

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• I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

  Miles Teller

  People, Towns, Small Town

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

  Augusta Savage

  Brother, Fall, Rain

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• You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?

  Bernie Siegel

  Health, Beer, Order

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Play, Eight

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• But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

  Cliff Stearns

  Fighting, Protect And Serve, Law

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• Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

  Tom Feeney

  Two, Aftermath, Hurricanes

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• I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

  Lee Majors

  Children, Years, Kind

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Niece, Heart

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• Florida is a very healing place.

  Burt Reynolds

  Healing

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• You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

  Corrine Brown

  Country, World, Election

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• It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.

  Ariana Grande

  Growing Up, Fun, Moving

  "Ariana Grande: 'I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding'". Interview with Lyndsey Gilmour, www.mirror.co.uk. December 5, 2014.

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• It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

  Randy Wayne

  Lakes, Sea, Cities

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• When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

  Darrell Hammond

  Home, Parent, Directors

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• Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.

  Allen Boyd

  Change, Running, Two

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• We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

  Dan Marino

  Change, Children, Differences

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• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  Corrine Brown

  Jim Crow Laws, Two, Example

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• I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

  Jeff Miller

  Thinking, People, Massachusetts

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• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Littles, Way, Parks

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• The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Decision, Court, Said

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• If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

  James Carville

  Fighting, Want, Harder

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• I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

  Jeff Flake

  States, Feels, Farms

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