There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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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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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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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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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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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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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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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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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 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 enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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