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.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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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.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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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.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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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.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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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.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.
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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
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There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
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Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.
