Jimmy Buffett Quotes
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.
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The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
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They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
