184 Quotes by Dave Chappelle


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    Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’

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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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    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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    Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.

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    Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.

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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 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 interested in controlling you.

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