Orlando Quotes

• I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Woods, Really Cool, Peter

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• Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sad, Knives, Melancholy

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

  Carrot Top

  Home, Cities, Kind

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.

  Deacon Jones

  Nfl, Land, Guy

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• I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

  Boris Johnson

  Want, London, Shots

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• Orlando... So many courses & great deals, especially in the summer!

  Tom Osborne

  Summer, Deals, Courses

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• The toughest part for me is the city - the people. They've got burgers named after me in Orlando, they've got a Web site saying, "Please stay." I love the people in the city. I've literally sat on the bench with a towel on my head crying, because I feel the passion in the stands.

  Dwight Howard

  Passion, Cities, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

  Pat Williams

  Basketball, Cheer, Home

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• In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

  Dwight Howard

  Stuff, Way, Wrong Way

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• Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

  Henry Winkler

  Florida, Play, Fish Tanks

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• This killer [in Orlando] was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement professionals do everyday to defend our nation. But we need to look carefully at this. Should we have a broader database? You know, someone comes to the attention of FBI not once but three times, does that suggest that local law enforcement needs to know.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Careers, Everyday

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.

  Chris Murphy

  Mean, People, Tragedy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

  Dwight Howard

  Trying, Way, Cry

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• Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

  Mark Zandi

  Country, Zero, Vegas

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• Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

  Linda Gray

  Home, Florida, President

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• Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Daughter, Cousin, New York

  "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

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• People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Jesus, Gay, Charlie Hebdo

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.

  Bill Murray

  Running, Atheist, Children

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Two

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• I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

  Jamie Sives

  Next

  "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.

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• The attacks in Orlando - the worst mass shooting and the worst attack on the LGBTQ community in our history - shocked the conscience of our nation.

  Donald Trump

  Mass Shootings, Community, Worst

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• That dreadful alligator attack in Orlando would never have happened if Disney had put up real warning signs, like other Florida resorts do. But wild alligators don't fit the Disney image, so they were no proper warnings, and a child died for no reason.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Children, Real, Florida

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando.

  Lester Holt

  New York, Years, Knives

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.

  Donald Trump

  Different, Looks, World

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I want to join everyone in expressing my great sympathy and support for people who lost loved ones in this terrible terrorist attack [in Orlando] and everybody still in the hospital who is struggling and all the first responders.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lost Love, Struggle, People

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Hillary Clinton". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.wbur.org. June 13, 2016.

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