The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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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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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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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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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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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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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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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Everyone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
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