Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

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• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Myself

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Democracy
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Stop
  • Nerd

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

  

  Lindsay Davenport
  • Time
  • Real
  • Perfect

• For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Authenticity

• I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

  

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