Florida Quotes - Page 7

• In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

  Dave Barry

  Cockroaches, Warning, Way

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn't doing any graffiti at that time, so I'd say from about 2000 to 2006, I wasn't doing any graffiti.

  Alec Monopoly

  Beach, Art, House

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

  Dave Barry

  Cancer, Numbers, Skins

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• My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Backyards, Madness, Grew

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Real, Segregation, Economic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents.

  David Mandel

  Interesting, President, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Shows

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• A little Jewish Grandma is at the Florida coast with her little Jewish Grandson. The grandson is playing on the beach when a big wave comes and washes the kid out to sea. The lifeguards swim out, bring him back to shore, the paramedics work on him for a long time, pumping the water out, reviving him. They turn to the Jewish Grandma, and say, we saved your grandson. The little Jewish Grandma says, He had a hat!

  Henny Youngman

  Beach, Grandma, Kids

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• You can't control Ted Cruz for instance. No one has suggested you could do that and Marco Rubio, everyone tried to stop Marco Rubio from going against a sitting Republican governor in Florida. He did it anyway and won.

  Mitt Romney

  Sitting, Republican, Marcos

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

  Donald Trump

  People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Colorado is a swing state, like Nevada, like North Carolina, like Florida. It all depends. [Donald] Trump has offended Mexicans and Muslims and millennials and some women. Will those offended people be energized to show up in the way that Trump supporters are energized to show up? It will be an energy.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Swings, People, Colorado

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Having lived in Florida for as long as you did as well, Jeb Bush has never really been that great of a politician. He's benefited from a lot of good luck.He torched his own campaign in '94, he had a weak Democratic opponent in '98, he benefited from the Clinton boom and got out before the Bush bust.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Good Luck, Long, Campaigns

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off.

  Virgil Green

  Couple, Night, Thinking

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• We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they know how to do it. He gets the title.

  Nate Burleson

  Nice, Boys, Titles

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Jet Engines

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• President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

  Jay Leno

  War, Winning, President

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

  Dan Rather

  Texas, California, Burritos

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• Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, People, Want

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• My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Years, Tomatoes

  "'Food Chains' Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 21, 2014.

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• As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'

  Bobby Bowden

  Winning, Play, Mad

  "The case for FSU's dynasty" by Mark Schlabach, www.espn.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Florida is a very healing place.

  Burt Reynolds

  Healing

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• One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me.

  Charlie Weis

  Team, Home, Winning

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• Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Fate, Dark, Sunshine

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• An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.

  Robert D Bullard

  New York, Native American, Alaska

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