Chet Atkins (Mr. Guitar) Quotes
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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In its last moment, the whole of my life will last only a moment.
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.
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When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
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I thought the first part of the year, when he was healthy, I think that is about as good as I've seen anybody run.
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
