Chris Rock Quotes
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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I have a great office.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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Give peace a chance.
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You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.
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I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.
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My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.
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I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?
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No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'
