Dave Chappelle Quotes

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

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• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Afraid
  • Marry

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Ideas
  • End
  • First

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• I think a great athlete transcends eras.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Athlete

• I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • God
  • Media

• All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Famous

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Opinion
  • Alcohol

• I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Great
  • Why
  • Change

• You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Famous