Jimmy Cliff Quotes

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

Jimmy Cliff

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I was the black kid in school who'd skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop. I was into everything.

Jermaine Fowler

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We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Robert Hall

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Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Michael Greger

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I never write about a place I don't know.

Ruth Rendell

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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Jose Marti

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Of course China is an important new market for Tod's, and of course we need to succeed commercially. But I believe the way to do that is not to aim to deliver results in the short term by thoughtless expansion, but instead to explain to the Chinese people what our brand is really about.

Diego Della Valle

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I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

Dawn French

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In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Anthony Kiedis

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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan

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To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

Shia LaBeouf

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Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.

Seth Shostak

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I have a rule where once a week I have a date night with my wife, and that's the time when I put my phone away and have calls forwarded to my assistant in case of emergency.

Scooter Braun

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