Florida Quotes - Page 13

• I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Mother, Kids, Facts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

  Megan Fox

  Glasses, People, Looks

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.

  Harold O. J. Brown

  Christian, Religious, New York

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• Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beach, Spring

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.52, Vintage

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• I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Islands, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.391

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• We ought to be bragging about Florida!

  Rick Scott

  Bragging, Ought

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Mermaid, Nineteen, Paradise

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

  Jeb Bush

  Enforcement, Want, Death Penalty

  "If You Think Jeb Bush Is A Moderate, Then You Missed His 1994 Campaign" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2015.

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florence Nightingale, Political

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• The fans made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that Florida really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.

  Gerry DiNardo

  Team, Lsu, Games

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• I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good as I've ever been around. I had always heard about night games at Tiger Stadium and had never gotten the chance to call one. It was really special to be a part of that and then the game, my gosh, how can anybody ever forget that. The fourth quarter and LSU's final drive, that's something I'll always remember.

  Verne Lundquist

  Football, Night, College

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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• What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Silver Platter, Cocaine

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• A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

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• According to a new survey, almost half of the voters in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania say that they do not trust Hillary Clinton. Republicans immediately got together and said, 'OK, this is a huge opportunity for us. How are we going to screw it up?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Opportunity, Ohio, Together

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• Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

  David Letterman

  Running, Brother, President

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• The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about.

  Joe Tye

  Dream, Real, Winning

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• The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

  Steve Southerland

  Taken, Fighting, People

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• A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

  Edna Buchanan

  Cities, Roots, Miami

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

  Gary Danielson

  Worried, Happens

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• Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

  Gary Danielson

  Mistake, Team, Tennessee

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• As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker.

  George W. Bush

  Team, Humor, Political

  "Bush, Cheney, Powell Meet at Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2000.

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• I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Development

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• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Competition, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Unseen, Spirit, Everglades

  T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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