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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEIf 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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Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he’s not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn’t even say that.
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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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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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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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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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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 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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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.’
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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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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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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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