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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I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.
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Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
