Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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The sweet converse of an innocent mind.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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You get religion as your hair turns grey.
