Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Now that the House of Commons has declared itself, we shall take our case to the country.
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Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.
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A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
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The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role. Space and time gave way to space-time, visible light was augmented by images across the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum, and we realised that we could see back towards the apparent beginnings of time.
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Only time will tell if it was time well-spent
