If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
DAVE CHAPPELLEEveryone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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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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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 enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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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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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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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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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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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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