Dave Chappelle Quotes
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.
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As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
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To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.
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True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
