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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.

Dave Chappelle

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
Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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Bad Fame Greatness Horrible
For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.
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Famous Gratitude Himself Love Possible
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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Action Death Kill Woman
Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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Important Invention 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
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
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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Comedy Earth People Sensitive Social
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’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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Condition Failure Love Myself People
Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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Conquer Performance Street Venue
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
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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Goodness Life Money Oneself Time
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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Hard True Watch Yourself
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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Happiness Life Myself Reality Time
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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Choice End Life Money Myself Purchase Value
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
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
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
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Comedy Field One Liner Orientation
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
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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Comedy Interest Place World Yourself
If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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Better Myself Salary Teacher Thinking
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
The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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Happy High 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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