Dave Chappelle Quotes

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

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• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

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• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

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• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

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• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

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• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

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• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

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• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

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• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

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• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  

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• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

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• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

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• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

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• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

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• A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

  

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• The struggle for existence is very difficult here Berlin! - in 1911 Kirchner and his Brücke-friends moved from Dresden to Berlin, but the possibilities are also greater. I hope that we can create a fruitful new school and convince many new friends of the value of our efforts.

  

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• I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

  

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• So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are on our side. That doesn’t mean democracies are without flaws. It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is greater engagement by our citizens - not less.

  

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• Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it.

  

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• I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Beautiful