Dave Chappelle Quotes
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
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Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.
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Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
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I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.
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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
