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

• 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

• 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

• There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it.1.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Early detection has saved my life twice. I will continue to battle and lend my voice in any way I can.

  

  Anastacia
  • Life

• In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • She
  • Church
  • Religious

• People communicate anger of course through facial expressions, but in voice, there's a wider spectrum, like cold anger and hot anger and frustration and annoyance, and that entire spectrum is a lot clearer in the voice channel.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Cold
  • Anger
  • Communicate

• When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Great Joy
  • Buddhas

• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

  

  Edith Evans
  • Why
  • She
  • Man

• Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine. Since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands. . . . we are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivate the land.

  

  Arthur Ruppin
  • Land
  • Roots
  • Peasants

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

  

  Chevy Chase