Dave Chappelle Quotes
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.
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America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.
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I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
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Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
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Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
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I don't care if I ever work in TV again.
