Barney Chavous Quotes
Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the area where I was living, and to make some trips lasting several weeks in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere..
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When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
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I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
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Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.
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It's OK to have a little bit of curve.
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After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
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I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.
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Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
