Jimmy Buffett Quotes
The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
