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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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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All the Jewish tradition I had came from my grandmother, who grew up in Palestine and eloped with my grandfather and went to New York. She lived very close to us until she died when I was around 20. She sang a lot of songs, led the Passover seders. It was a very rich part of my life, and my grandmother was a big part of my life.
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With you, I would walk anywhere
