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

  

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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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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  

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• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  

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• I hear from lots of people looking for love, unsuccessfully, that they’ve got a restrictive list of ‘filters,’ including age, when you open your age range filter by including younger people among your possibilities, you’ve got a whole new group of folks to date.

  

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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