Jimmy Buffett Quotes
Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.
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Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
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Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
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Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.
