David Chase quote: "People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy."

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred ...
DAVID CHASE

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about real...
DAVID CHASE

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for th...
DAVID CHASE

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia cod...
DAVID CHASE

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a...
DAVID CHASE

I think people are intolerant of artists.
DAVID CHASE

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for th...
DAVID CHASE

I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to...
DAVID CHASE

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to ...
DAVID CHASE

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ...
DAVID CHASE

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows...
DAVID CHASE

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was tha...
DAVID CHASE

People get so tired of the '60s.
DAVID CHASE

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it...
DAVID CHASE

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self...
DAVID CHASE

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, ...
DAVID CHASE

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
DAVID CHASE

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my f...
DAVID CHASE

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still t...
DAVID CHASE

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my...
DAVID CHASE

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically...
DAVID CHASE

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I...
DAVID CHASE

Not at all tricky. We do this sort of stuff every day before breakfast. Then I fly to work on my...
DAVID R. CHASE

All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh no...
CHEVY CHASE

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
ILKA CHASE

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
ILKA CHASE

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the gre...
ILKA CHASE

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
ILKA CHASE

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
STUART CHASE

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to...
BAILEY CHASE

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of ...
BAILEY CHASE

I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, ...
BAILEY CHASE

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I...
BAILEY CHASE

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger complim...
BAILEY CHASE

'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ...
BAILEY CHASE

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye ...
BAILEY CHASE

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and...
BAILEY CHASE

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi...
BAILEY CHASE

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
BAILEY CHASE

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE

To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE

A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE

Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
STUART CHASE

You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.
EMMA CHASE

She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag...
EMMA CHASE

Memory is the thing you forget with.
ALEXANDER CHASE

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
CHEVY CHASE

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
ILKA CHASE

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
CHEVY CHASE

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
ALEXANDER CHASE

The only people who never fail are those who never try.
ILKA CHASE

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
ALEXANDER CHASE

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us ...
ILKA CHASE

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
ALEXANDER CHASE

A man's home is his wife's castle.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
STUART CHASE

I'm Chevy Chase and you're not.
CHEVY CHASE

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing ...
ILKA CHASE

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or ...
ALEXANDER CHASE

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
STUART CHASE

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd jus...
BAILEY CHASE

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the...
ALEXANDER CHASE

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we ...
ROBIN CHASE

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there we...
CHEVY CHASE

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
CHEVY CHASE

Chandler Norman, I feel, will be one of the top golfers in the Mid-Penn and District 3 this year. He...
BILL CHASE

By the time the officer got here, they thought it was this monster.
BILL CHASE

They came running back saying they needed a net because they saw an alligator. I thought they were s...
BILL CHASE

In considering making changes to your farming practices, state and local crop consultants are a bene...
BILL CHASE

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called...
CHEVY CHASE

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
CHEVY CHASE

Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE

Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English l...
EMMA CHASE

Mackenzie raises her hand proudly. “I have a bagina.”
I smirk. “Yes, you do sweetheart. ...
EMMA CHASE

A man's home is his wife's castle.
ALEXANDER CHASE

For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times pro...
CHEVY CHASE

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.
CHEVY CHASE

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
STUART CHASE

You have a bunch of cracked-out hoes fighting over Flavor Flav, the king of funk nasty. You have to ...
CHASE BROOKS

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced...
ALSTON CHASE

When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no m...
CHASE BROOKS

I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I...
CHEVY CHASE

Many attorneys didn't want overseas assignments because they were negatively impacting their chances...
BRIAN CHASE

We know they're gonna come out with a lot of energy because it's the championship and they just lost...
BRIAN CHASE

In order to find your shot, you have to keep shooting the ball and coach gives us the confidence to ...
BRIAN CHASE

We didn't want to get anyone hurt. Everyone knows what's at stake in the bigger picture. We wanted t...
BRIAN CHASE

I didn't think anyone would ever take it seriously.
BRIAN CHASE

The language is deliberately fuzzy. They want to try to take away any legal recognition for same-sex...
BRIAN CHASE

This will set a precedent. If they get a reduction in their insurance, we'll expect the same thing.
BRAD CHASE

Componentization would allow AOL to keep its own user interface with its own distinctive branding, c...
BRAD CHASE

AOL might think about it [providing Internet access] as a profit center. That's not how we think abo...
BRAD CHASE

We've combined push capabilities, desktop integration and the latest in browsing and communication t...
BRAD CHASE

We're excited about making the service available to millions of people who use Windows. We believe t...
BRAD CHASE

Hundreds of people worked on it -- taking customer feedback. We want people to try it and compare it...
BRAD CHASE

The key standards such as HTML have been developed by the industry working together. We support indu...
BRAD CHASE

They're win-win partnerships. (The partners) customers get the benefit of I E 3.0 and our customers ...
BRAD CHASE

It's unfortunate that a small handful of competitors are using the SPA to wage an anti-Microsoft cam...
BRAD CHASE

We are developing Windows 98 and moving forward full steam ahead with that for release in calendar Q...
BRAD CHASE

We've even included an area where families can dine with residents.
BOB CHASE

They had a hard time to get the package.
BOB CHASE

You can't accommodate millions of people by just coordinating land use. We're not adding transportat...
BOB CHASE

I think Chris was one of the most considerate men I ever knew. I don't know that he ever had a bad w...
BOB CHASE

it's fine to get out and solicit people's opinions . . . but what we're looking for is a governor wh...
BOB CHASE

The fact is a lot of our local associations have been willing to look at alternative pay schedules o...
BOB CHASE

There's probably a recognition there that people in both parties know we are going to have to raise ...
BOB CHASE

[Casualties have been] extremely light on the coalition side, ... and conversely there have been a l...
BOB CHASE

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
ALEXANDER CHASE

You know on TV when there’s one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the cricke...
EMMA CHASE

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance...
LORETTA CHASE

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE

Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' ...
MARY CHASE

The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
ALEXANDER CHASE

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a ...
STUART CHASE

The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are p...
CHEVY CHASE

The seed John planted with me is to be more proactive with what we want to have happen, and write it...
SCOTT CHASE

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idi...
CHEVY CHASE

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully va...
STUART CHASE

People don't buy technology, they buy content...You have got to have content that is married to (tec...
CHASE CAREY

Avoid fatty foods, Bensonhurst, and hair care products.
CHEVY CHASE

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.
CHEVY CHASE

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to th...
WILL CHASE

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
CHEVY CHASE

It gives it a flavor and texture that's outrageous.
CHASE HIBBARD

[While Granite City's Oktoberfest shows its European roots, it's not alone, says Chase.] One of our ...
LARRY CHASE

People question the meter reading. It is definitely sticker shock. It doesn't hit you until you open...
CHASE KELLEY

I’m well aware that this—that I—am the first man to ever do this to her. And yes, as a guy, th...
EMMA CHASE

I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, B...
SARA CHASE

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Call us or go online. Request a payment arrangement or extension. We can push your due date back or ...
CHASE KELLEY

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced t...
ALSTON CHASE

I'm good at what I do - simple kind of stuff. But I'm a Pete Townsend kind of player. I hit it hard....
CHASE WESTFALL

The defense got it out well and I flicked it to Pablo. He read the play beautifully and hit it back ...
CHASE BARBIERI

Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use ...
LARRY CHASE

This is a lot of fun. But it's a lot more work than I thought. There's no time to rest.
CHASE BUDINGER

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
CHEVY CHASE

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
CHEVY CHASE

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
CHEVY CHASE

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a s...
CHEVY CHASE

I don't get the sense that people are thinking we're not going to have a team next year. But at the ...
ART CHASE

We've told them that regardless of what happens, we will still offer them scholarships next year.
ART CHASE

It's pretty standard to give kids options once a coach [who recruited them] is no longer with the pr...
ART CHASE

It's kind of hard. Your coaches want you to eat healthy, but with only 15 dollars a day, it's hard t...
AMANDA CHASE

The food situation was very hard.
AMANDA CHASE

One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn&#...
ROBIN CHASE

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very head...
CHEVY CHASE

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small ...
ILKA CHASE

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the gre...
ILKA CHASE

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows [and] devoted family...
ILKA CHASE

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours
ILKA CHASE

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, "I love you." The real trick is to get them t...
ILKA CHASE

The only people who never fail are those who never try
ILKA CHASE

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing org...
ILKA CHASE

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family m...
ILKA CHASE

She's parlayed that into a fan community that far exceeds what her actual work on the show would eng...
CHASE MASTERSON

He was just about to move when he felt her kiss his shoulder and his chest. She was curled up agains...
SAMANTHA CHASE

Slowly he walked into the room. Stalked, actually. That was the primitive side of him, how he felt. ...
SAMANTHA CHASE

Sweetheart, wherever you are, that’s where I’ll be. Forever.
SAMANTHA CHASE

I can’t think of a better way to start my day.”
“Get used to it,” he murmured, right b...
SAMANTHA CHASE

Abby,” he signed.
“Hmm?”
“I have a confession to make.”
“Okay,” she ...
SAMANTHA CHASE

Most men suck at communicating, Abby. Like, they seriously suck at it. I've been married for over th...
SAMANTHA CHASE

Her body was so slim, so… everything. His hands began to twitch with the need to touch her. Wearin...
SAMANTHA CHASE

When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE

Love is the root of all happiness and all sorrow and theres not much in between.
CHASE KITCHENS

Trek has always been noted for having hot women on the show, so the guys tune in for the action and ...
CHASE MASTERSON

If you can't be good, be honest.
PATRICK CHASE

It's definitely unusual. We heard about that from a lot of people. They congratulated us. Usually, y...
CHASE BLACKBURN

To understand is to forgive.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Certainly, on many occasions, as far as their mistresses, broken marriages and financial affairs are...
CHEVY CHASE

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, w...
CHASE UTLEY

I was on the top step. I had a good feeling.
CHASE UTLEY

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.
CHASE UTLEY

He's the guy that starts everything. He's a big part of our team.
CHASE UTLEY

We have the biggest game of the year [Sunday], and we have to win.
CHASE UTLEY

Any loss like that is devastating. Especially with five games to go.
CHASE UTLEY

We put it to them late in the game, ... It was huge.
CHASE UTLEY

We put it all together, ... We still have three more to go. There's definitely still a shot. Obvious...
CHASE UTLEY

I still don't think we've clicked as an offense. We can still do a better job. We're all going to ge...
CHASE UTLEY

Especially being in the middle of the lineup with Ryan behind me, if I get on base, that could be an...
CHASE UTLEY

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this d...
CHASE UTLEY

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight,
CHASE UTLEY

This, ... shows the fire of this team.
CHASE UTLEY

We have to be a little ahead of our usual schedule. Now we're ready to go.
CHASE UTLEY

I'm hearing it from all the guys. I expect to. I deserve it. I would give myself grief. If someone e...
CHASE UTLEY

I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time...
CHASE UTLEY

We were down in the game by a lot, but we still had that fire. We were rooting for him big time.
CHASE UTLEY

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

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People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

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