Jimmy Buffett Quotes

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

Jimmy Buffett

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• Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Future
  • Community
  • Now

• I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Game
  • Know
  • Always

• There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

  

  James Comey
  • Doubt
  • Islamic

• I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Country
  • Society
  • Racism

• I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Good

• You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

  

  Chris Lilley

• I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • World
  • Society

• Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

  

  John Key
  • Done
  • Worry

• No authors propounded the ideas of economic liberalism in Sweden during the 1920s as vigorously as did Cassel and Heckscher, and in addition they certainly helped in no mean degree to give actual policy a liberal stamp during that decade.

  

  Bertil Ohlin

• Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.

  

  Frank Knight
  • Failure
  • Organization
  • Author

• It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Always

• Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Blood

• America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • American
  • America

• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • May
  • Soul

• Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Responsibility
  • Violence
  • Disease

• When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

  

  J. Bracken Lee
  • Path
  • Golf
  • Use

• Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Fighting
  • Military
  • Obstacles

• We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

  

  Said Seyam
  • Political
  • Son
  • Occupation

• I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Doubt
  • Occupation
  • Consistently

• But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Arms
  • Sock

• When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Interesting
  • Impossible
  • Alternatives

• I should know about this because I am the chairman of the policy group. But I had no knowledge of that until this report, ... We?re talking every week. We meet every week but we did not have any information about such negotiations.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Knowledge
  • Information
  • Policy

• The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  

  James Brown
  • Problem
  • Dance
  • Happiness

• My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Occupation
  • Hazards