Chris Rock Quotes
I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
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True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.
