I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
DAVE CHAPPELLEOne 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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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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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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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.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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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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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 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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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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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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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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