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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Dave Chappelle

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
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
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Old People Right Yourself
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
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
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
Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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Kind Stand Yourself
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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People White
No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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Answer Children Hands Old Phone Yourself
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 started when I was 14. I figured out that’s what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, “You’re gonna be a comedian,” and all this stuff.
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Comedy Myself People Remember Start
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
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
The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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Boundary Limitation Yourself
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Comedy Field One Liner Orientation
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
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
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Enjoyment Myself Thinking Time
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
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Enough Famous Hollywood Myself White
The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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Happy High Myself
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
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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Leaving Level Myself Necessary Relationship Work
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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Late Listening Myself Quit Work
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 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

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