Chevy Chase Quotes

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

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• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Language

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Movie
  • Today

• The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Seven

• Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Before

• I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Going

• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dying

• The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Think
  • Man

• I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Good
  • Group
  • Gaming

• He enlarged perceptibly the scope for debate, liberalized appreciably the intellectual and cultural life of the country and proclaimed the obvious truth that, after an atomic exchange, little would distinguish the Communist ashes from the capitalist ashes.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Life
  • Country
  • Truth

• A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

  

  Steve McConnell
  • Mistakes
  • Avoid
  • Attempt

• While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Find
  • Works
  • Copy

• I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • America
  • Together

• Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Heritage

• Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

  

  Chevy Chase