Dave Chappelle Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
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Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.
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Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.
