Jimmy Buffett Quotes
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.
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All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
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The consolidation that we started in 2009 was clearly the requirement of that time.
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I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
