Chris Rock Quotes

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

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• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Reasons
  • Companies
  • Buy

• Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Wealth

• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Like
  • New
  • Restaurant

• The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Hungry
  • Often
  • Gallery

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Night
  • Free

• I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Expectation

• Chris Hemsworth is like my bromance. Seriously, I think I really inherited one of my best friends now. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm going to stalk him if he doesn't.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Best

• I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Years

• I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Success
  • Learned
  • Give

• Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Paradise

• All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Men
  • Soul

• Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Children
  • Alone

• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • May
  • Competition

• This book has done well to preserve this saga of how the state was made safe for cows. How the state is to be made safe from cows is a saga yet to be written.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Done
  • Book

• People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

  

  Marian Seldes
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'll be on the field about 100 plays a game (this year), ... (But) I'm all about winning, so if they need me to step in and help then I'm going to do it.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Help
  • Game
  • Step

• The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

  

  Lewis Tappan

• I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Time
  • Help

• Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

  

  Dave Hampton
  • Purpose
  • Resilience
  • Autonomy

• I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

  

  Chris Rock