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I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.

Dave Chappelle

It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Enough Famous Hollywood Myself White
Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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Himself Religious Scripture Sin Smoking
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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Comedy Earth People Sensitive Social
I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
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Change Count Day Future Myself People
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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Control Instance Interest Money Yourself
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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Lose People Right Yourself
Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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Country Fame Place
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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People Smile Stand Wall Yourself
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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Change Drama Leap Money Oneself People
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
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
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
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.
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Call Crazy People Strong Worst
I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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Fantasy Myself
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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People White
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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Greatness Mark Yourself
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
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
Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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Important Invention Yourself
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Old People Right Yourself
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
I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
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Ideas Life Myself People Walk
I got a lot of positive people around me.
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Myself People Positive
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 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
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
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Comedy Field One Liner Orientation

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