Dave Chappelle Quotes
Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I have been left-wing always, from childhood.
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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.
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Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
