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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.

Dave Chappelle

I got a lot of positive people around me.
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Myself People Positive
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
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
Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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Kind Stand Yourself
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Comedy Field One Liner Orientation
It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Enough Famous Hollywood Myself White
If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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Better Myself Salary Teacher Thinking
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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Failure Greatness Life Mark Realization Yourself
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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Himself Platform Reparation Serious Slave Thinking Win
Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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Bad Fame Greatness Horrible
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Enjoyment Myself Thinking Time
You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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Care Company Yourself
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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Enjoyment Feeling Goodness Life Live Ourselves
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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Children Fact Laughter Love Show
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
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

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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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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