Christopher Guest Quotes
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
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When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
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I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
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I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
