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People Quotes by Dave Chappelle
- You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
- I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
- I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I…
- People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
- I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
- 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…
- I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk…
- 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…
- If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist,"…
- 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…
- 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…
- There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money," he said. "I'm at a restaurant with my…
- The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
- There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show…
- The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy.…
- I got a lot of positive people around me.
- New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.
- I like that particular kind of attention. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling…
- Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid…
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