Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I want to go down in history.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
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If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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'I'm in the Lord's hands,' he said humbly. 'I'm but a penny whistle for His breath to blow on.' This he said with such solemnity that the meaning of a fanatic was suddenly revealed to me. One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.
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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.