Jimmy Cliff Quotes
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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I love recording music.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
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Be somebody for your kids to look up to.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
