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
  • Guy
  • Change

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

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

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Cool
  • Calm
  • 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
  • Woman
  • Happiness

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

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• 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
  • World
  • Work
  • Problems

• 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
  • Research

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

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • 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
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

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

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I have been struck by how families, corporations, and other kinds of institutions are constantly trying to cure their own chronic ills through amputations, “strong medicine,” transfusions, and other forms of surgery, only to find that, even when successful for the moment, the excised tumor returns several years later in “cells” that never knew the “cells” that left.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Medicine
  • Families
  • Surgery

• I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Music

• When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • Art
  • Door
  • Chinese

• When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • People
  • Time
  • Question

• When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the Beatles, there's the Rolling Stones.' But people know those stories. Here was a story no one knew.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Trying

• 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