Chris Rock Quotes
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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... The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
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The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.
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I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
