Chris Rock Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.
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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
