Dennis Chavez Quotes
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Quotes to Explore
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
-
I enjoy Saturday night racing.
-
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-
I don't like possessions.
-
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
-
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
-
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
-
I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
-
I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
-
I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
-
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
-
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
-
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
-
Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
-
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
-
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
-
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
-
Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.
-
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
-
We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.
-
We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
-
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
-
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
