You got to be careful of the company you keep.
DAVE CHAPPELLEComedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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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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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 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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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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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 worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive. “I don’t understand this person. So they’re crazy.” That’s bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
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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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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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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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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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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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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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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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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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