Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.
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Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
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Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.
