Jeff Ross Quotes
With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
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Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.
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I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.
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So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
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With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.
