Barney Kessel Quotes
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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My mother is my hero.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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It was a nice win for us, a game that we shot the ball well. They just kept coming back and found a way to get back in the game with various plays. It was a great game to watch as a fan.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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I've never been a blind romantic.
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Girls..... really um nah, I always just liked the sound of an electric guitar.
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Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East.
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
