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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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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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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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
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I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
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Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
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Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.
