Florida Quotes - Page 11

• The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple of years later. So, we start with the stories of Juan Garrido and Esteban to show that African-American people have been here a century longer than anyone thought, and that the diversity we see in the African-American community today has existed since the beginning.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Couple, Mean, Years

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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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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• On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.

  Alan Shepard

  Beautiful, Moon, Lakes

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• [Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.

  Mary Matalin

  Transition, Elements, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

  Jacques Pepin

  Simple, Pbs, Cooking

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• I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

  Billy Gardell

  Years, Two, Three

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• If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Virginia, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

  Charlie Crist

  Moving, Thinking, Important

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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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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I was at a little Haiti the other day in Florida. And I want to tell you, they hate the Clintons, because what's happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation is a disgrace. And you know it, and they know it, and everybody knows it.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Foundation, Haiti

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Under my plan, not only will we modernize our Navy's cruisers, but we'll also invest in the technologies of the future being developed right here in central Florida. My plan also includes major investments in space exploration, also right here.

  Donald Trump

  Technology, Space, Navy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Under a Trump administration, Florida and America will lead the way into the stars.

  Donald Trump

  Stars, America, Way

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I haven't officially spoken in public about that issue, but I don't think it's a secret that Carlos [López-Cantera] has been a good friend of mine for many years. I respect him. I think he has done a great job as a state representative, as property appraiser in South Florida, and he's doing so now as lieutenant governor of Florida, and I think he would be a great senator, but I don't have an announcement for you today.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Good Friend, Thinking

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• We are getting thousands and thousands of professionals, very highly-trained people, from Puerto Rico who are now living in Florida, and who have obviously contributed a lot to this state, but the island is losing that population.

  Marco Rubio

  Islands, People, Population

  Source: www.univision.com

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• In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Ohio, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

  Tony Hale

  Beach, Redneck, Thinking

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• My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.

  Taraka Larson

  Growing Up, Texas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different worships. That sense of community is very much interconnected with music for us, and thinking of music as this living organism that offers a space of mystical participation with forces outside yourself.

  Taraka Larson

  Religious, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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