Best Quotes about Miami, Florida

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Last Updated on: 28th August 2021, 06:08 pm

I have my own studio down in Miami.– Aaron Carter

I’m excited to join Power 105.1 in New York and The Beat in Miami and expand my brand even further in the coming months.– Angie Martinez

Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? … I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world… it’s the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food’s good.– Anthony

This is what America’s all about, nobody’s being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn’t see anybody being shoved around.– Bob Dole

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that’s how I got into modeling.– Channing Tatum

I’m a winner. Dwyane’s a winner. We’re going to bring winning to Miami.– Chris Bosh

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.– David Caruso

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.– Dwyane Wade

I feel like ‘CSI: Miami’ was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I’d always wanted to do.– Emily Procter

180 episodes of ‘CSI: Miami’ and never the same lipstick twice!– Emily Procter

Jews don’t care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.– Evan Sayet

A lot of times when I say I didn’t do anything I was actually in Miami doing a show.– Girl Talk

Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can’t sing.– Gloria Estefan

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It’s so different but it’s so similar to the United States, to Miami. It’s like a doppelgaenger. It’s the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.– Henry Louis Gates

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No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.– Iggy Azalea

The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world.– Jackie Gleason

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. [In Miami] everybody is looking at you.– Jamie Foxx

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does…– Jason Terry

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I’m working on the things that are important to me.– Jeb Bush

Why can’t DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O’Hare does with Midway?– John Ensign

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol’ Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.– Jon Secada

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I’d be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that’s as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.– Josh Turner

I dont like Miami that much. I dont like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot.– Juan Pablo Galavis

In this fall – this is very tough – in this fall I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.– LeBron James

I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn’t going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.– LeBron James

My favourite city is Miami. It’s very fresh and the beach is sunny.– Liu Wen

As good as Miami is, we’d rather go to Miami.– Luol Deng

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.– Mickey Rourke

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I don’t stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.– Neil Patrick Harris

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.– Nicolas Sarkozy

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.– Patricia Ireland

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.– Pauly D

I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.– Rafael Nadal

I will never play for the Miami Heat.– Rajon Rondo

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I’m not too sure right now, but it was ’74 or ’75. I went to Miami in ’74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of ’74.– Ruben Blades

So that when I came from Panama… my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.– Ruben Blades

So I went to Miami in ’74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn’t have any money to begin with.– Ruben Blades

In Miami, there’s a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.– Ryan Guzman

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.– Sidney Poitier

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.– Tom Wolfe

I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.– Zaha Hadid

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, ‘I gotta go to Broadway.’-Rita Rudner

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I feel like ‘CSI: Miami’ was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I’d always wanted to do.-Emily Procter

I love the Miami atmosphere.-Shaquille O’Neal

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.-Lenny Bruce

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.-David Caruso

Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It’s like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there’re palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It’s a very weird place.-Grimes

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.-Pauly D

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.-Dave Barry

I think when you saw this year’s playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they’re starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.-John Starks

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It’s beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.-Jon Secada

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.-Sidney Poitier

But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami – but the diamonds will keep me cool.-Lil’ Kim

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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father’s fortitude.-Desi Arnaz

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.-Patricia Ireland

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don’t know yet.-Shaquille O’Neal

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued – with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.-Todd English

Actually freestyle really comes from ‘Planet Rock’. If you listen to all the freestyle records you’ll hear that they are based on ‘Planet Rock’. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.-Afrika Bambaataa

I love David Caruso. I know it’s not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he’s interesting.-James Denton

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.-Leslie Charteris

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.-Dan Marino

So that when I came from Panama… my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.-Ruben Blades

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here’s a team that seems to be jelling.-Al Michaels

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.-Robin Gibb

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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.-Patricia Ireland

Why can’t DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O’Hare does with Midway?-John Ensign

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol’ Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.-Jon Secada

Jews don’t care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.-Evan Sayet

And I’ve been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.-Edward James Olmos

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.-Jason Kidd

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.-Andy Garcia

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I’m not too sure right now, but it was ’74 or ’75. I went to Miami in ’74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of ’74.-Ruben Blades

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor’s Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.-Donna Rice Hughes

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.-Oksana Baiul

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So I went to Miami in ’74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn’t have any money to begin with.-Ruben Blades

People – just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually.-Dave Barry

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I’m talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I’m in a New York state of mind.-Billy Joel

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.-Genesis Rodriguez

I couldn’t sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It’s always going to be my home, but it’s not the same.-Hanley Ramirez

As soon as I came to L.A., I was told that I was exotic. I’d think, But I’m from Miami! I’m as American as a cheeseburger!-Genesis Rodriguez

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.-Dwyane Wade

Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.-Dave Barry

I will never play for the Miami Heat.-Rajon Rondo

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.-Ayshay

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week – every Saturday night.-Larry King

The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!-Jackie Gleason

I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it’s really busy and it’s like the real city and then I come to Miami and I’m just in a happy place.-Nina Agdal

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I think in L.A. everybody has a really cool flare, trendy style here. I think I kinda adapt be it I’m a little more trendy in L.A. Somewhere in New York, I could literally sit at a café and have a cappuccino and watch people walk by and it’s like a fashion show to me. Compared to somewhere like Miami where I literally wear beachwear all day and I can walk around barefoot. My style is consistent. It may bend a little bit according to cities, but that’s about it.-Kelly Rowland

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, “Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami.” She said, “We can’t do that!” I told her, “You did it last week!”-Henny Youngman

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.-Arnold Palmer

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.-Tibor Fischer

Miami’s never been more than a spit from New York.-Iggy Pop

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.-Katie Couric

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.-Tom Wolfe

Miami, you can never run out of material. As long as you have Miami around you, you will never, never stop being amused.-Dave Barry

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.-Dave Barry

Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that’s there. And all those things inform what you do – and they should.-Padma Lakshmi

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I’ve got a lot of good friends – the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets – both owners are friends of mine.-Mitt Romney

In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.-Barbara Hulanicki

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.-Pitbull

The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I’ve been in America. They’re so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I’m not saying other parts of America don’t have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me.-Tracey Emin

Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here – its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual – theres a quicksilver quality about this place.-Iggy Pop

It’s odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.-SpaceGhostPurrp

I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.-Adriana Lima

I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.-Estelle

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that’s how I got into modeling.-Channing Tatum

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My favourite city is Miami. It’s very fresh and the beach is sunny.-Liu Wen

Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.-Lil Wayne

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach – particularly the northern end of South Beach – is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.-Susan Orlean

I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.-Rafael Nadal

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.-Desi Arnaz

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race – and it really doesn’t make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me – and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations – nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit … asked for blintzes.-Dick Gregory

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.-Henny Youngman

Miami Beach – that’s where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate – my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.-Brett Ratner

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.-Jonathan Vilma

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.-Lenny Bruce

There’s no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.-Brett Ratner

I’ll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.-Carlos Mencia

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180 episodes of ‘CSI: Miami’ and never the same lipstick twice!-Emily Procter

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.-Dwyane Wade

I’ve played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I’m already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.-Dwyane Wade

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I’d be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that’s as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.-Josh Turner

It’s impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.-Marco Rubio

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.-Mickey Rourke

I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.-Zaha Hadid

Honestly, I think winning changes all of that. It doesn’t matter where you are – it could be Timbuktu – if you win, people will watch, they’ll follow and they’ll support. It’s my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players. Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They’re not the biggest markets.-Masai Ujiri

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I’ve seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They’re not just there when a disaster is happening.-Nancy O’Dell

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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.-Sidney Poitier

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.-Jimmy Johnson

You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you’re gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it’s in Vegas.-Penn Jillette

I’m pleased that they performed as well as they did while we’ve been in Miami and that’s about as far as it goes. Now, we’ve got to go home and play as well or better.-Gregg Popovich

I don’t like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don’t know who the group is. It’s laughable to say that The Miami Herald’s editorials or any newspaper’s editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don’t we tell everybody who they are?-Dave Barry

I’ve started films like Miami Vice where I’m in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I’ve got a larger face.-Colin Farrell

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.-Joe Greene

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I don’t think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it’ll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.-Andrew Zimbalist

I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.-Sunny Mabrey

Every kid’s dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you’re younger and stuff like that. It’s awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.-Gaby Sanchez

John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they’re going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to “create a libertarian society” on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there’s never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that’s great.-Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove – not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.-Dave Barry

Is Miami America? Is it a state? Is it the South? … I love Miami for the same reason I love the places I love most around the world… it’s the mix here, this big, messy, dysfunctional hell broth of people from all over the world that make it so awesome and make it a place I want to keep coming back to. Also the food’s good.-Anthony

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, ‘Never-Never Land’, and the children became known as the ‘Peter Pans.’ I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.-Tori Amos

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The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami.-David Letterman

On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.-Dennis Miller

I’m a winner. Dwyane’s a winner. We’re going to bring winning to Miami.-Chris Bosh

Only audiences decide what’s a franchise. Only audiences decide what’s a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.-Nina Jacobson

When ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and – to my surprise – I made a huge profit!-Vanilla Ice

I don’t stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.-Neil Patrick Harris

I actually like south Florida. I never lived in a more interesting place than this. I’ve never met a wider range of people. I guess when I came here I thought there were Cubans and then there were people from New York and that was Miami. Now I know that it’s Cubans, people from New York, and some people from New Jersey.-Dave Barry

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.-Ozzie Guillen

We’ve concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That’s our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland’s Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.-Peter Calthorpe

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Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.-Warren Sapp

Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.-Nicholas Stern

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.-Jamie Foxx

The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked ‘Glee’ I was shooting ‘CSI Miami.’ I was playing this heroin addict…I’d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didn’t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.-Naya Rivera

…Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald’s automotive writer and TV critic. That’s correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it’s going to be a big let down.-Dave Barry

I played seven years in Minnesota and I’m looking forward to a better, greater seven years down in Miami. I’m back home. It’s great.-Daunte Culpepper

I think it was just part of the storyline [in CSI: Miami] and the producer called me beforehand and said, ‘Listen, I am going to kind of do something with your character that looks like she might get fired, but I just want to reassure you that we’re going to have you back,’ and I thought, ‘Oh god, I hope that is true.’-Boti Bliss

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[I do] my manicure/pedicure once a week. When I’m on the road, I use the hotel or whoever I call. But in Miami I have my own person.-DJ Khaled

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel-Simon de Pury

I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car – me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we’re going back and forth to see each other, we sing: ‘Oh, Baby Baby.’ We sing all these 1990s songs. We’re like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.-Kelly Rowland

By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.-James Lovelock

When I’m in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.-Andy Murray

We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that’s been created is much greater than the reality.-Marc Morial

I’ve been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.-Tom Clancy

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country.-Tom Tancredo

People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you’re going to Toledo but you’re actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren’t driving well-Ben Silbermann

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I started thinking about what it would be like to raise my family in my hometown. I looked at other teams, but I wasn’t going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.-LeBron James

I have my own studio down in Miami.-Aaron Carter

I asked myself, ‘How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?’ So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.-Jacque Fresco

All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.-LeBron James

I’m excited to join Power 105.1 in New York and The Beat in Miami and expand my brand even further in the coming months.-Angie Martinez

I feel like when I’m match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.-Lleyton Hewitt

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My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.-Roger Federer

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what’s important… is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.-Janet Reno

It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.-Hunter S. Thompson

But how did you know where we were?” Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.-Rick Riordan

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.-Carl Hiaasen

What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I’m impressed. Since we’re not in Miami and you haven’t a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)-Sherrilyn Kenyon

In this fall – this is very tough – in this fall I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.-LeBron James

Let me tell you, Alex. He’s a crook. He’s based here in Miami. He’s a nasty piece of work.” “He’s mexican” Troy added.-Anthony Horowitz

I’m suprised he doesn’t send Christmas cards,” Antonio said. “I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,”Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl.-Kelley Armstrong

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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, ‘I’m busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.’ WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you’re watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?-John Green

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.-Rick Riordan

I’m doing a lot more cardio now. I want to be able to run and run and run and not get tired, you know, be able to play at a high level for all four quarters. I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.-Brandon Spikes

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it’s crazy.-Sean Kingston

As a freshman at Miami I started of as a reliever for the first few games and quickly moved into the rotation as the Saturday started for conference play. That year was very successful, I was name a Freshman All-American as well as 2nd Team All-MAC.-Graham Taylor

Why else do we have Miami, if not to give me material?-Dave Barry

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