Dave Chappelle Quotes
I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
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Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.
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I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
