Jimmy Webb Quotes

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Jimmy Webb

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With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

Jimmy Cliff

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Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Jim Rogers

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We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.

John F. Kelly

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I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.

John Curran

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These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.

John Lydon

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Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Ani DiFranco

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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Anita Diament

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I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Michael Bloomberg

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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner

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Mentally strong people don't shy away from change - nor do they expect immediate results.

Amy Morin

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People used to call the Paralympics the 'Special Olympics.' These men and women are athletes. They are warriors. They are people who are not confined by what they have been given. It's amazing to see where, and how far, the human body can really go.

RJ Mitte

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Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

Mary Roach

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