Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
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It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'
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I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
