Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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Music has always been around with me.
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I play. But this is what I think.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
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Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
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You don't have to resolve every problem of the book at the end, but you do have to resolve some.
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I write about what I'm going through.
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Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
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I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure.
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I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
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I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.
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I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
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Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.
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The traumatic event itself, however horrendous, had a beginning, a middle, and an end, but I now saw that flashbacks could be even worse. You never know when you will be assaulted by them again and you have no way of telling when they will stop.
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Flashback in film rarely works.
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Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?
