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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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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Weed’s not as bad as everything else… ’cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain’t crisp… but you’ll function.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear – I’m not mad at anybody – not anymore.
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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 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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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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I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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