Dave Chappelle Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
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I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.
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You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
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There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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My generation is under-entertained.
