When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI’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 just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.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 felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
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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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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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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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They do what they do for money – that’s all. I don’t even know why you’re listening to me. I’ve done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can’t even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
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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 only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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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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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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