The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI got a lot of positive people around me.
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I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
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I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
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I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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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Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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They do what they do for money – that’s all. I don’t even know why you’re listening to me. I’ve done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can’t even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
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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 have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.
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You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
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I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful religion if you learn it the right way.
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I don’t want the money. I don’t want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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