Dave Chappelle Quotes
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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Every actor dreams of getting a second chance to reprise a role.
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To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.
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We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of the strength and security of a successful society.
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'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.