Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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With you, I would walk anywhere
