Jimmy Cliff Quotes
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
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Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.
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My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.
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Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
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The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
