Chet Atkins (Mr. Guitar) Quotes

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Chet Atkins

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• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• 100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Man
  • Partner
  • Married

• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Happy

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Desire
  • Red
  • Alert

• It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Food
  • Military

• I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Listen

• I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Fans

• Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Morning

• I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Women
  • Walk
  • Stores

• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Experience
  • Inspiration
  • Psychology

• Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Country

• One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Me
  • Opinion

• I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Past

• Soldiers - You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as lawyers, journalists and accountants, are changing too. Some of their tasks are being replaced.

  

  Alain Dehaze

• When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Emphasizes

• America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Important
  • Cool

• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  

  Becky Fischer
  • Truth
  • Gospel
  • Islam

• If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

  

  Chet Atkins