Jimmy Buffett Quotes
Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
