Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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I've directed independent film.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.
