We’ve collected the best Florida Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Daniel Boulud, Sidney Poitier, Laura van den Berg, F. Lee Bailey, Charlie Crist. Use them as an inspiration.
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I couldn’t adjust to the racism in Florida.
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If I’m offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I am a Florida guy. I don’t do cold.
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While I’m critical to the Bush presidency, it’s been enormously beneficial for Salon because we’re seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.
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I’m from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I’m definitely always up for that.
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I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.
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There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
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The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.
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At 26 years old, I own a house in Florida.
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Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia.
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
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I came from a prep school in New Jersey, so I get that when I got to FSU, some people weren’t sure about me – I didn’t play in Florida or Texas or at a powerhouse high school.
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I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.
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One day, though, I was asked if I’d like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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No matter where you put me, I don’t care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I’m going to be who I am.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I’ve met some great people and we’ve had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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I’ve been going to Florida since I was a baby.
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I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn’t as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn’t.
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I don’t think it’s changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line’s gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That’s just how it’s gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you’re gonna put in your music.
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There’s a lot of work to be done if you’re going to run for president or if you’re going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove’s play book, but there’s no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.
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We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.
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Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he’s young, he’s Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he’s got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.
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We need to recognize that, whether you’re looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.
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I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.
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I love Florida Georgia Line. I love ‘Round Here.’ So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn’t listening to country music before is listening to ‘Cruise‘ on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it’s a good thing for the genre.
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I spoke at, I think, four of the Trump rallies that were in Florida, and these were not highly coordinated events. I would often learn of the program of one of these events just a day or so before the event itself. That seems to evidence the point that these were not people off colluding with Russia.
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There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There’s a lot of money, development – not all of it good – and corruption.
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From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren’t any opportunities for that.
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I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida… my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I’ve lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
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I’m Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.
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I’m have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.
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The acquisition of Silverback 7 will expand our ability to support vital national security programs, and there’s not a better business-friendly environment to do that than right here in Central Florida.
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I’ve won some awards. ‘Time’ magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I’ve got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn’t get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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If I didn’t have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.
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I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it’s going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up – thanks to your help and a lot of others.
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My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I’m from.
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We are for freedom here in Florida.
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When businesses think of locating in North America, I want to make sure that they think first about Florida.
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I’m rewriting. If I’m working with a co-writer, they’ll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.
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The closely divided presidential election of 2000 – in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida – forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.
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I grew up in Miami, Florida.
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I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida – the worst place on earth.
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When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida’s east and west coasts.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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There is a reality to the primary process, and you don’t win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.
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My son was born right here in Florida; he went to public schools and went to the University of Florida and surprised me – I’ll tell you that – when he went into the service.
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People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.
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The three books I’ve written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.
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‘Leverage‘ is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we’re in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
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We’ve had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, ‘What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?’
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I’m so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there’s one job I’m even more proud of, and that’s being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.
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Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.
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I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we’d have a garter snake in the lawn. But I’m not super okay with them.
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I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.
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Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
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Just to be able to say that I’m from Miami, Florida, in the Winter Olympics was an honor, and I’m proud to be able to say that I’m playing on the U.S. national team for baseball from Miami as a Cuban-American.
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It’s not a right to play at Florida. It’s a privilege.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven‘t seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Florida is nice, but Texas is my favorite state.
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Sometimes when you’re in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there’s a Starbucks and McDonald‘s everywhere, and you could feel like you’re in Florida. But in Japan, you know you’re there.
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Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It’s so close, which is perfect because it’s the minimal travel time.
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The iPhone always has a different look from model to model – ‘Tangerine’ is quite smooth, but that was the 5s. I was using the iPhone 6s Plus for ‘The Florida Project,’ and it has what’s called a rolling shutter, and it gave it this hyperactivity and a very different, jarring feel, and we liked that.
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I will never be done with South Florida.
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As the country’s third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
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I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.
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Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy’s on St. Armand’s Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time – a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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The talent in Florida, it’s great, but sometimes it’s underdeveloped, and it takes time for those guys to develop… I experienced it when I was with the Florida Gators, they’re development players. For whatever reason, the high school coaches aren’t paid near as well as the ones in Georgia and Texas.
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It’s a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.
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Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.
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Since Mark Richt took his offense from Florida State to Georgia, Florida State has been floundering. They have no identity. They have a bunch of plays, but they have no system and no philosophy.
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I’ve read in various media stories that my dad and I had demanded guarantees of playing time or that we didn’t want to play at Florida. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the exact opposite. We went in there and specifically said we weren’t looking for guarantees.
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So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we’ve gotten overwhelming support, and it’s so exciting.
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And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That’s why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.
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I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida – to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.
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When I’m done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I’m working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.
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How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it’s a little bit warmer.
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It’s really frustrating when you’re an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, ‘This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card – this is his address,’ and they say, ‘We don’t have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.’
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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In the state of Florida, we’ve got a lot of issues. In fact, we’ve got 99 issues, and ‘Hamilton’ ain’t one of them.
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I learned very quickly there’s not a lot to do in South Florida when you can’t golf or fish.
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Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
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I went to a Catholic girls’ school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor‘s degree in 2003.
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You know, every city in Florida is different.
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Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.
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I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they’re communicating on the Internet.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world – I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it’s where people go to die.
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I went to Florida State for college. Then I went to Oxford in England for a master’s degree. I was drafted by the Titans and was with them for two years, and then one year in Pittsburgh with the Steelers.
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I’m from Clearwater, Florida, and I love Nashville so much I don’t even really miss the beach.
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The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California’s the lowest, just about.
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My experience at Florida State helped me to have the discipline to prepare as well as to endure challenging spots.
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Wherever I go – like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools – wherever it is, if it’s in Florida, if it’s up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.
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We did great things when we were in Congress, and I want to continue work on the issues that matter to South Florida, because we deserve better.
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Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that’s just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don’t know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.
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Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.
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Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren’t your upper-class whites by any means.
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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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I definitely used to lie about my age. I’m from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.
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I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean’s Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.
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If a novel were written about Florida’s administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: ‘Don’t get sick, and God help you if you do.’
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Florida is very difficult to have name ID… That’s why statewide incumbents usually get reelected in Florida.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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Florida’s nice and warm, there’s all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn’t be there!
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I want to compete with the best – Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Because I know that not only can we compete, I know that we can win.
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I don’t want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.
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I couldn’t adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant… I had never been so described as Florida described me.
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The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
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As long as Will Muschamp is the head coach at the University of Florida, Urban Meyer will be a part of this program. He needs to be involved with this program for our players. He’s a great sounding board for me and part of this great tradition.
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Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.
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I’ve gotten to know them and love everything about the people of Jacksonville. There is an energy and a youth factor here that you don’t typically associate with Florida. There’s a real vitality. It’s energizing.
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Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
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In Florida, we are focused on economic growth and not on things that divide us.
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It doesn’t change whether it’s Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting’s a lot like shaving: If you don’t do it every day, you start looking like a bum.
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I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.
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The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn’t demand a recount.
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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.
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It’s a great honor to be an Under Armour All-American and to follow in the fast-growing tradition of this game. It’s a great opportunity to spend the New Year in Florida, which is going to be a little warmer than Buffalo.
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I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.
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I think I’ve worked hard for everything that’s happened but I know I’ve had a lot of support from family, friends, and even at Florida State. My coaches and teammates have supported me in everything I’ve wanted to accomplish.
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My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.
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I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.
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My job is to make sure that if you’re a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That’s my job and that’s what I think about every day.
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I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend – thinking we would just spar around – but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.
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I grew up in Florida, and I have a lot of friends, close friends, who are Cuban-Americans, and I have heard the stories of their families escaping, and some of them didn’t even make it to come to the United States for a better life to get away from the Castros.
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I was in Colorado for about 15 years but my family is all from Florida.
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Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren’t just seeing these films in California or Florida. They’re seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.
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I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.
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I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.
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Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful cable host than he ever was a politician.
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In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states – Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin – already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking.
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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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I’ve always been drawn back to the South, whether it’s Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.
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No state income tax, no snow, lots of golf courses, and ready-made gated communities make Florida an irresistible place for seniors – the ones who have the income level – to retire.
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Florida’s waves are better than Japan. It’s just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I’m able to go to the surfing.
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When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of ‘Cats.’ And I was, like, absolutely silent – which for a 3-year-old never happens – and I turned to her and said, ‘I need to do this.’ That’s when I started my performer journey.
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The majority of Puerto Ricans in Florida and New York are Democrats, but nonetheless, we have Republican governors.
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don’t think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
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I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.
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Florida is a very idiosyncratic place in a lot of ways – as are many parts of our fine country, but one could say Florida is particularly idiosyncratic.
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For me, there’s nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it’s on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.
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From drought-parched Brazil to the increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, from the rising seas along the Florida coast to the punishing heat waves hitting South Asia, in communities large and small, rich and poor, urban and remote, we can see the irrefutable evidence of what science has long told us was coming.
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In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn’t adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
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Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting of state legislative elections in 2010 enabled Republicans to gerrymander states out of Democrat reach.
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I feel great about the boxing in South Florida.
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Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida’s contrary laws must fall.
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Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I’m headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches – even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.
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I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It’s different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new.
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Pensacola isn’t Florida, really. It’s the Panhandle. It’s right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It’s, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.
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