If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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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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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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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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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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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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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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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
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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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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
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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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