Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
Zac Brown Band
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Ilan Stavans
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
Jacki Weaver
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
L'Wren Scott
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
Brown Campbell
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
Warren Rudman
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
Laila Ali
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey
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Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
Alveda King
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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
Francois Hollande
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
Madame de Stael
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
T. H. White
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Indecision may or may not be my problem.
Jimmy Buffett