Dave Chappelle Quotes

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Dave Chappelle

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LifeGreatYouKnowEmbraceRealize

The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.

Jesmyn Ward

SlaveryAmericanKindReasonVacuum

I got the pilot for 'Scrubs' sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said 'a John McGinley type.' So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who's a dear friend of mine, I said, 'Well, I'm John McGinley.'

John C. McGinley

FriendMeSaidPilotWellMine

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

John Hench

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Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Andy Rooney

GrandchildrenNever ForgetForget

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Sophocles

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My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Simon McBurney

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I wanted to be a jazz musician.

Ron Cephas Jones

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I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

Mike D

PeopleFeelDefendMostI FeelPart

What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I was born into. These are the things that make my work. They make who I am as well.

Michaela Coel

LifeWorkI AmTheatreMy LifeBorn

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

Louis Bacon

FatherMemoriesFishingAppreciation

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkingWhoOtherUseArchitects

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Little Richard

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