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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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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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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Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about the samurai and things like that. Right after Pearl Harbor, they were just real quiet. They kept to themselves; they were afraid to talk about what could happen. I assume they knew that nothing good would come out of it.
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The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
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My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.
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I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.
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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.
