Chris Rock Quotes

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

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• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Party
  • Choose
  • Election

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I keep in touch with what's real.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Real
  • Keep
  • Touch

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • Movie
  • High

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Real

• Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • May
  • Dark

• After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Career

• I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Period

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

  

  Chris Rock
  • People
  • Famous