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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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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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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On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
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I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.
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You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
