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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.

Dave Chappelle

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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Angry Himself Mindset People Position
Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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Conquer Performance Street Venue
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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Drama Fun Money Myself Show
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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Care Issues Money Myself Work
The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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Boundary Limitation Yourself
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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People White
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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Comedy Imagination Myself Question Wife
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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Beginning Expensive Myself Name Price
I have angst in my life, but I’m like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.
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Enjoyment Feeling Goodness Life Live Ourselves
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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Black Man Myself Thinking
I started when I was 14. I figured out that’s what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, “You’re gonna be a comedian,” and all this stuff.
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Comedy Myself People Remember Start
I got a lot of positive people around me.
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Myself People Positive
Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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Himself Religious Scripture Sin Smoking
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Enjoyment Myself Thinking Time

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