Jimmy Cliff Quotes
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.
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There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.
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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.
