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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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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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.
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It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.
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It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
