Jimmy Cliff Quotes
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
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I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
