Chevy Chase Quotes

I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.

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• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Modeling

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Going
  • Storm
  • Improvement

• I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feel
  • Scary
  • Role

• Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Aging

• Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Joy

• Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I am still much attached to them, but now since I am unable to go, it pains me to think of them. So I just stay busy with this work.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work

• Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Giving
  • Value

• You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Character
  • Bad

• Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

  

  John Calvin
  • Awareness
  • Touched
  • God's Majesty

• No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Doubt

• I never really thought about what kind of career I wanted to map out for myself. I just wanted to do work that spoke to my heart. 'Atlanta' definitely did that.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Career

• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.”

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Humanity
  • Drama
  • Crime

• I'd never be tied down for five years interviewing TV personalities.

  

  Chevy Chase