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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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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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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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
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We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.
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Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.
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Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.
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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.
