I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
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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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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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Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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They do what they do for money – that’s all. I don’t even know why you’re listening to me. I’ve done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can’t even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
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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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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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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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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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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian, what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
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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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