Dave Chappelle Quotes

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
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• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
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  • Court

• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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  • Stay

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
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• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Change
  • Sure
  • One Thing

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  

  Vernor Vinge
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• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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  • Nothing

• I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • American
  • Freedom

• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Empty
  • Farmer
  • Barn

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
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• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Life
  • American
  • Tired

• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Learning

• Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Help
  • Manager

• The most beautiful part is the traveling, and getting to know different cultures and different types of people and to perform in very, very important venues in each country.

  

  Alfonso Herrera
  • People
  • Cultures
  • Traveling

• It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Strong
  • Amazing

• I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People