Chris Rock Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
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I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
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Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
