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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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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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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Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Is he really dead?
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
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I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
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Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
