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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Dave Chappelle

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
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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Happiness Life Myself Reality Time
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’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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Condition Failure Love Myself People
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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Black Man Myself Thinking
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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Late Listening Myself Quit Work
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Enjoyment Myself Thinking Time
It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Enough Famous Hollywood Myself White
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
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
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
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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Choice End Life Money Myself Purchase Value
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
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
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best Children Myself
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Old People Right Yourself

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