You got to be careful of the company you keep.
DAVE CHAPPELLEListen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
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You’ve got to say ‘yes’ to your destiny. Life’s happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.
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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian, what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
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I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
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Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it’s not nothing, it’s something. But it’s not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.
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Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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