Jimmy Cliff Quotes

• Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Thinking, Feelings, Good Feeling

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• Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

  Jimmy Cliff

  Perseverance, Rome, Victory

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• Si tienes un sueño en mente, puedes conseguirlo por difícil que parezca.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Inspirational, Dream, Mind

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• Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Wind, Sea

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• People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

  Jimmy Cliff

  New Beginnings, Hands, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Travel, Heart, Mind

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• I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Philosophy, Men, Liberty

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• No sé adónde me llevará la vida, pero sé dónde he estado. No puedo decir lo que la vida me mostrará, pero sé lo que he visto. Probé mi mano en el amor y la amistad, pero todo eso pasó y se fue. Este niño sigue adelante.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Moving, Boys, Hands

  Song: Sitting In Limbo

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• Todo el mundo necesita darse cuenta de por qué estoy aquí. En la vida de todo el mundo surge esa pregunta: ¿por qué estoy aquí? ¿Qué estoy haciendo? Una vez que eres capaz de responderte a esa pregunta con sinceridad, todo va sobre ruedas.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Smooth Sailing, Able, Needs

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is

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  Way, Kind, Positive Outlook

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• If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

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  Generosity, Trying, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Me encanta crear y eso es lo que da satisfacción a mi alma.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Giving, Soul, Satisfaction

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

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  Country, Cities, People

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Fighting, Men, Puppets

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• I think we all have a role to play in life.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, War, Inspiration

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

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  Love Is, Knowing, Eternal Love

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

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  Artist, Echoes, Expression

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

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  Song, Knows, Greater

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.

  Jimmy Cliff

  World, Return, Happenings

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

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  Mean, Together, Hindsight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

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  Musical, Done, Form

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

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  Years, Voice, Stills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  People, Hollywood, Fantastic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Ghetto, Oxygen

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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