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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So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.
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I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
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I'm not a sexist.
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I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
