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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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 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 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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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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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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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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!
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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 always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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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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