Chevy Chase Quotes

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

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• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • Smart
  • Lawyer

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Me
  • Feel

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Opportunities
  • Rejection

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Risk

• New York is my favorite city.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.

  

  Becky G
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Speak

• Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who’s peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Commitment

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

  

  Matt Bomer

• Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Band

• I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Coaching

• Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

  

  Christo

• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• Nothing can prep you for eight years of sex scenes in one day.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Years
  • Scene
  • Preps

• My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Weekend

• the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Different
  • May
  • Sex

• I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

  

  Scott Foley
  • Wife
  • Film
  • Husband

• 'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Weekend