Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
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One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.
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I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
