Chris Rock Quotes
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
-
We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
-
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
-
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
-
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
-
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
-
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
-
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
-
I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
-
Marriage is socialism among two people.
-
There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
-
I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
-
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
-
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
-
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
-
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
-
Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
-
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
-
Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
-
People's minds are overloaded with information.
-
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
