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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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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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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Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.
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Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.
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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
