You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
DAVE CHAPPELLENo matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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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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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 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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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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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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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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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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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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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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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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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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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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The 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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