Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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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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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
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If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.
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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
