#d

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#combination #comes #felt #i #influences

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. ↗

— Fred Upton

#back #because #benefit #benefiting #benefits

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#backstage #bad #feel #go #good

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

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#famous #i #like #me #might

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

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#bad #being #being famous #famous #great

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#field #very