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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I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.
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I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.
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I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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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.
