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Dave Chappelle10 quotes
Men have nice cars. Not cause they like nice cars. Because they know women like nice cars. That’s how it goes. Cause men are hunters. And the car is the bait. And a woman comes up and says: “Ooh, nice Porsche.” “Gotcha, bitch!” — Dave Chappelle · 2000Every black dude in this room is a qualified paralegal and shit. He knows the law. If one of us even start to do something wrong, an old black man would pop out of nowhere. Nigga, don’t do that. That’s 5 to 10. — Dave Chappelle · 2000I mean, there could be a black president one day, but…You don’t wanna be the first one. I mean the second or third that's fine, but…that first nigga better watch out. — Dave Chappelle · 2000New white people. You can’t scare these white people. I tried. Roll up on 'em: BOO! "What the hell is wrong with you? Those days are over." — Dave Chappelle · 2000John F. Kennedy. Remember him? He fucked Marilyn Monroe. Matter of fact, him and his brother Bobby fucked Marilyn Monroe. And history doesn’t talk about that much. You know why history doesn’t talk about that much? Because those two pages in history are stuck together. — Dave Chappelle · 2000Chivalry is dead. And women killed it. — Dave Chappelle · 2000All 10 quotes →Jonathan Safran Foer4 quotes
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005Sometimes I think of the books I'll never read that would have changed my life. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005Gore Vidal3 quotes
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. — Gore Vidal · 1956Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal · 1973The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes. — Gore Vidal · 1972Charles Fleischer1 quote
If you remember the 60's, you really weren't there. — Charles Fleischer · 1982Duke Ellington1 quote
Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. — Duke Ellington · 1973John Foster Dulles1 quote
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles · 1956Marjorie Rawlings1 quote
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one. — Marjorie Rawlings · 1938