Dave Chappelle Quotes

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

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• The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Past

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Sister
  • Cooking

• The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Day
  • December

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Job
  • Hand

• I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Fashion
  • Model
  • Week

• If you don't want to put on any makeup, try some fake eyelashes. They make your eyes pop and give you a little confidence boost.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Eyes
  • Confidence
  • Makeup

• I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

  

  John Bolton
  • Believe

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World

• After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Fake