Chevy Chase Quotes
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
Barrett Foa
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
Adam Mansbach
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis
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I have always loathed working out.
Tea Leoni
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
Eric Lynn Wright
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Abbas Kiarostami
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.
Rachael Ray
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
George Eliot
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When women come together, we make a lot of amazing stuff happen.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves
Brian Tracy
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The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
Chevy Chase