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.
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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.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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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.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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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.
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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.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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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.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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.
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Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
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You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
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Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
