The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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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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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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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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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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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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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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They do what they do for money – that’s all. I don’t even know why you’re listening to me. I’ve done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can’t even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
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