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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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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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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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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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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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
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Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.
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Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
