"There's so much hate that we direct externally……" — Carl Hiaasen
"There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!"
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60 Quotes by Carl Hiaasen
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That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind…
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Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a…
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That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to…
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And…
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on…
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched…
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that…
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name…
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly…
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and…
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my…
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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