The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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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’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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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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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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.
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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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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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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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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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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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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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