Dave Chappelle Quotes
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.
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Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
