Jimmy Cliff Quotes

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

  Jimmy Cliff

  Thinking, Feelings, Good Feeling

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• Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

  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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Smooth Sailing, Able, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Moving, Boys, Hands

  Song: Sitting In Limbo

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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

  Jimmy Cliff

  Way, Kind, Positive Outlook

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

  Jimmy Cliff

  Generosity, Trying, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Giving, Soul, Satisfaction

  Source: 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Country, Cities, People

  Source: 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

  Source: 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Love Is, Knowing, Eternal Love

  Source: 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Echoes, Expression

  Source: 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Knows, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Musical, Done, Form

  Source: 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  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

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Attention, World, Outlook

  Source: www.pbs.org

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