Dave Chappelle Quotes
I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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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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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
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I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.
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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.
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You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
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I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
