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" If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. "
Dave Chappelle
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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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" I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships. "
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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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" After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. "
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" I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO. "
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" I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it. "
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" Comedy is a very approval-oriented field. "
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" People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you. "
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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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" My generation is under-entertained. "
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" I love my jokes. "
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" 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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" I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it. "
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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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" I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic. "
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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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" 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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" Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. "
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" I love being famous - it's phenomenal. "
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" You can't get un-famous. You can get infamous, but you can't get un-famous. "
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" Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through. "
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" You know you must be doing something right if old people like you. "
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" Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me. "
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" The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. "
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" I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore. "
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