D L Hughley Quotes

#1. Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

Ivan Pavlov

#2. With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

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#3. You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

Max McKeown

#4. I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

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#5. If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Sun Ra

#6. I done told you twice already goddammit no!

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#7. The one thing women love more than money is power.

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#8. I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just ... old.

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#9. I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

John C. Bogle

#10. I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

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#11. Everybody wants to be great at something.

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#12. There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.

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#13. They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

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#14. When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Arianna Huffington

#15. I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

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#16. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

Thomas Friedman

#17. The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.

Amelie Mauresmo

#18. Forget family, or ethnic and religious groupings: corporations have supplanted all these as the primary structure of the modern tribe.

Tom McCarthy

#19. They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

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#20. There's just something about you, Bess. You're sweeter than the aroma of the blueberry muffin I devoured with you, prettier than the sun setting over the ocean back home, and tangier than the lemons you squeeze into your water.

Rachel Blaufeld

#21. I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

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#22. Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.

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#23. There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

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#24. Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

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#25. Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

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