Jimmy Cliff Quotes
People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'
Quotes to Explore
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
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I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.
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I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'
