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You’ve got to say ‘yes’ to your destiny. Life’s happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

Dave Chappelle

I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.
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Goodness Life Marriage Style
Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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Conquer Performance Street Venue
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Old People Right Yourself
Weed’s not as bad as everything else… ’cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain’t crisp… but you’ll function.
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Bad Function Smoking Substance Yourself
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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Bad Country God Hope Land Myself Swear
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
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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Failure Greatness Life Mark Realization Yourself
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 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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Association Learning People Religion Talk Yourself
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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Lose People Right Yourself
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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People Smile Stand Wall Yourself
You’ve got to say ‘yes’ to your destiny. Life’s happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!
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Destiny Life Live Right
Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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Country Fame Place
Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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Bad Fame Greatness Horrible
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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Greatness Mark Yourself
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’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
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Better Happiness Mature Myself Start
I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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Encouragement Funny Myself Responsibility Sketch Social
I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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Children Fact Laughter Love Show
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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Control Instance Interest Money Yourself
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Comedy Field One Liner Orientation
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
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
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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Change Drama Leap Money Oneself People
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
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Hate Joke Myself People Race Reason Thinking
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

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