Chet Atkins (Mr. Guitar) Quotes
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I like to work.
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I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
