Dave Chappelle Quotes
I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
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What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
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Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
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I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
