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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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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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
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'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.
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I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
