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| Everyone has a gripping stranger in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing white shoulders who stamps your book at the library - a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying, "Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida," you'd follow them
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| 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
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Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand here
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President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida
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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
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While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them
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| Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud
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My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law
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Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country
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| Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles / and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech / look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
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| I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth
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I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
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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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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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The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts
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| Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there
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