Chevy Chase Quotes
Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m.p.h. under her own steam.
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My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
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There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
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Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'
