Christopher Atkins Quotes

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

• I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Great
  • Different
  • May

• I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Water
  • End

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Long
  • Family
  • OK

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Difficult
  • Solitude

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Acting

• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • Children
  • Abundance

• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • American
  • Oppression
  • Walls

• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enthusiasm
  • Negativity

• I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Business
  • Today

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Brother

• I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Guy

• I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Problem
  • Confess
  • Traveller

• In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Time
  • Moving

• The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Program
  • Steak

• I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Being
  • Materialistic
  • Portrayed

• I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

  

  Christopher Atkins