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Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#because #doing #going #i #know

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.' ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#ever #expensive #father #get #gets

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#becomes #contrived #joke #just #much

I got a lot of positive people around me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#got #i #lot #me #people

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#agent #draws #elements #fact #in fact

[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing -- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#education

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. ↗

— Craig Charles

#bit #black #black family #estate #families

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#destinies #drama #example #explores #for example

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done. ↗

— Ray Charles

#anything #done #fact #fantasized #give