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.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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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.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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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.
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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.
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It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
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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.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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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.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.
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I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.
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I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
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You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
