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Quote by Carl Hiaasen
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know, and the soapbox routine. Theyre much more uneasy knowing theyre a target of ridicule. – Carl Hiaasen

Other quotes by Carl Hiaasen

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. – Carl Hiaasen

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Humor
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Carl Hiaasen
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Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen

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Sympathy
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Carl Hiaasen
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I dont just get angry and jump on a soapbox. – Carl Hiaasen

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Anger
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Experience
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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But theres no question women are paid less. Women dont ask. – Dee Dee Myers

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Theres full consensus in the military that women shouldnt be in person-to-person combat. I dont know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. – Michelle Bachelet

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Experience

Anyone who teaches knows that you dont really experience a text until youve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Experience

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. – Sonia Sotomayor

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Experience

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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Nature

My books are very few, but then the world is before me – a library open to all – from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me – in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. – Joseph Howe, 1824

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. – Stephen Spender

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If youre not serving the customer, youd better be serving someone who is. – Karl Albrecht

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Customer Service / Sales