Chubby Checker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
-
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
-
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
-
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
-
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
-
I always like to sing barefoot.
-
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
-
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
-
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
-
From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
-
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
-
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
-
I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
-
In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
-
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
-
I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
-
Pharrell has definitely influenced my style in regards to streetwear. Simply because we're from that era that Nigo and A Bathing Ape started. That's where it all started at for us.
-
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
-
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
-
Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
-
I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.
-
Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
