Chevy Chase Quotes
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
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What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
