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From 1970 to 1995, there weren't that many hurricanes, and the ones we had were nice, well-mannered, housebroken hurricanes that stayed out to sea and didn't make a mess.


Hugh Willoughby

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FRANK LEPORE We were in a tight market before all the hurricanes. And we won't be able to recover from the suppli...
CHAD JONES The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking. We can't get out, so we might...
FRED WILSON Hurricanes affect us terribly. If we have a bad hurricane season it'll take away from everything I d...
BETSY GARRISON Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and ...
D. JAMES BAKER We had two back-to-back hurricanes and then Wilma happened as well, knocking out much of the Gulf of...
ALICIA DIXON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We have learned from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons that hurricanes are becoming more frequent ...
BRIAN POZZI Our hospitals were well supplied in preparation for hurricanes. We knew they had water and diesel fu...
STEVEN CAMPANINI Many people were impacted by hurricanes, which made it difficult to serve customers on a consistent ...
BRIAN LEVINE [But even aspirin cant counteract the] universal fear epidemic ... that didnt truly threaten us. The...
MARC SIEGEL Numbers were below consensus because they had a big impact from the hurricanes and the closure of Te...
BRUCE EVERS We were going to leave anyway because I've learned from just watching the movie called 'Twister' you...
BARBARA KING There's no improvisation here. Cuba has a plan to face hurricanes. The United States doesn't. It is ...
JOSE RUBIERA This study really shores up the link between rising sea temperature and the intensity of hurricanes.
JUDITH CURRY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD It is difficult to make any kind of an accurate prediction of how many of these will strike land, .....
CONRAD LAUTENBACHER So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last yea...
GARY BEAUCHAMP So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last yea...
GARY BEAUCHAMP Our guys clicked last year when we had to play the matches around all the hurricanes. They came out ...
DAVID IZZO If you were to go in there and take out the three hurricanes - Cindy, Katrina and Rita - then you're...
JAY GRYMES The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking.
FRED WILSON The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,
ALAN ABRAMOWITZ Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea...
CAITLíN R. KIERNAN The area has responded very well when the hurricanes devastated the South, but it's time now to reme...
JANET M. CURTIS A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR. It was these favorable Atlantic steering currents that caused so many of the major hurricanes that f...
PHIL KLOTZBACH This new grant will help us learn more from the hurricanes of 2004 and make our community stronger.
BEN FISHBACK We're hearing that a lot of people have been affected by the hurricanes, and have had to go into the...
JOYCE ROGERS Back then we didn't have satellites and we didn't have aircraft reconnaissance. So it's quite possib...
JEFF MASTERS Recent hurricanes like Katrina showed it doesn't make sense to develop to that extent on barrier isl...
ERIC GOLDBERG We have had to deal with hurricanes, tsunami and now drought, all occurring in a very short span of ...
WENDY CHAMBERLIN Devastation from the hurricanes was so profound,
KATHY IRELAND Two very serious hurricanes ripped through the Gulf Coast area, and that had a huge disruption on na...
LEIGH MORRIS If pandemics were hurricanes, 1918 was a Category 5.
DR. MATTHEW CARTTER The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.
CRAIG FUGATE It's almost as though the hurricanes didn't happen, from a storage standpoint. It makes me quiver to...
MICHAEL ZENKER After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, oil companies were asked to help Americans in need. We are happy ...
FELIX RODRIGUEZ So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventur...
DIANA RIGG These are things coming from reporters who have not only covered many, many other hurricanes, they'v...
ROBERT SIEGEL We felt they did pretty well. The 2005 hurricanes created a pretty bad scenario for the company.
MATT NELLANS They're talking about the hurricanes. They were tracking Katrina.
ANNE CAMPBELL During the time when so few hurricanes hit North America, we as a society framed decisions about lan...
HUGH WILLOUGHBY We still haven't recovered from the hurricanes. The deficit just keeps on widening.
JUSTIN FOHSZ There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR. If temperatures continue to increase in the tropical North Atlantic, many of the coral reefs there (...
EDWARD KEARNS No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them tha...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER If you remember, fall of 2004 spiked high for us. We served as an evacuation site (during and after ...
DANIELLE COURTENAY The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can pred...
ERIK LARSON The problem existed before the hurricanes. But it appears that the hurricanes tipped it over the edg...
IAN CALKINS We have learned that all of Florida is vulnerable to hurricanes and stricter building codes that hav...
SAM MILLER A handful of other long-time hurricane chasers have been doing this for years. And we were getting r...
DAVID GOLD The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last ye...
BRAD DEAN FEMA strongly recommends communities build higher and stronger to reduce vulnerability from flooding...
DAVID MAURSTAD We happen to live in a catcher's mitt for hurricanes. I would still make all the preparations for a ...
ERIC CHRISTENSEN There is a clear difference between disaster relief operations and warfare. Our armed forces are des...
BRUCE LAWLOR When the hurricanes hit, a lot of information came up. We want to replant, and replant right.
ALYCE ROBERTSON Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Considering that San Antonio out-gave itself in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the respons...
ERIC COOPER Investors were cautious to begin with this year, and the hurricanes are causing them to second-guess...
DAVID BRIGGS Hurricanes, tornadoes and volcanoes are all Natural Disasters. We can't fit Global Warming into that...
VERONICA WHITE Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine,...
ED AARON Scientists have known that hurricanes form above the world's warmest ocean surface waters. This stud...
JAY FEIN In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image qu...
JOHN CAMERON Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average y...
GREGG EASTERBROOK The curling team had not fared well to that point. There was no definitive end in sight, and we had ...
BRIAN WALKER The nice thing about Dow is they weren't whining about the hurricanes. It's operational issue. They ...
MICHAEL JUDD Hiring was cautious in October. Aside from companies not being able to operate because of the hurric...
CARL TANNENBAUM They stayed off the interstates because they heard that [those roads] were a mess,
SHIRLEY JACKSON New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea leve...
NANCY GIBBS Many of the hurricanes which reach Florida or the United States are formed here.
AMADOU GAYE That rail line is a vital part of our American economy, and it needs to be in a place where it is no...
BRIAN SANDERSON It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.
JAN EGELAND I thought Game 1, both teams were neck-and-neck, and then they got a nice run, and from that point o...
ALAN KNIPE We don't have hurricanes, but when a tornado is coming we tell people to go down to the basement, .....
LARRY REED That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM Category 4 and 5 storms are also making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes. Categor...
JUDITH CURRY She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.
LAUREN DESTEFANO In a normal year, we sell 1 million Hurricanes. This year, it's way lower than that. Instead of tour...
RUPERT GWALTNEY [Protecting the city from Category 4 and 5 hurricanes] would cost, at a minimum, many, many hundreds...
JOHN HALL These things don't churn around out there for two weeks, like hurricanes. Fires can change at a mome...
GERRY LACAVERA It's a unique phenomenon because hurricanes don't normally form at that latitude and with those temp...
ANGEL RIVERA The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,
FREDERIC LASSERRE While recent hurricanes have not had lasting macroeconomic impacts, Katrina may prove to be the exce...
BRUCE KASMAN It's clear that the economic impacts from the hurricanes will stretch well beyond the Gulf Coast reg...
SCOTT ANDERSON I thought last year there would have been a debate over this after the four hurricanes we experience...
DON GRIFFIN The hurricanes and the gas prices have hurt us,
JOYCE ROGERS It was great. The students were very good and listened well. They were well-mannered.
RICHARD JOHNSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER North Carolina is particularly prone to weather-related emergencies -- from floods to hurricanes to ...
KATHY HIGGINS The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE The hurricanes distorted a very good year.
ROBERT RUBIN The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE We tried so hard to make use of the advantage that we had with the wind, that maybe we pressed too h...
BILL DUFFY Hurricanes and bad weather are on people's minds.
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HUGH SIDEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly c...
HUGH GRANT Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD