Jimmy Buffett Quotes
It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
Quotes to Explore
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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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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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
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It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
