Chris Rock Quotes
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
Quotes to Explore
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
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I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
