Chevy Chase Quotes
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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I can clap with one hand.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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There's no good guys and bad guys.
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The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
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I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
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I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.
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You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
