Chris Rock Quotes
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I always have to be writing.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
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When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!
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If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.
