The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive. “I don’t understand this person. So they’re crazy.” That’s bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
DAVE CHAPPELLERalph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he’s not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn’t even say that.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he’s not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn’t even say that.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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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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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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