Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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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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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 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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.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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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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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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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 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 don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.
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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 felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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