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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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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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
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There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
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You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
