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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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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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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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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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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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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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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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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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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I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.
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Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve.
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The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
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I can't give up and sacrifice my career, my future for a man, especially being engaged for so many years.
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Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.
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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.
