Dave Chappelle Quotes
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
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I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.
