Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda (Chico Buarque) Quotes
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
