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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.
Jimmy Cliff
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Jimmy Cliff
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 30
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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.
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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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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.
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Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.
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I think we all have a role to play in life.
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I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.
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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.
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If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
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My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
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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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Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.
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Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
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I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.
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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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I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
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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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I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
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If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.
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