Chris Rock Quotes
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
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Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution - to 'insure domestic tranquility' and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently moves as you or I.
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Whoso lovesBelieves the impossible.
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When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
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Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.
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I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
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One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
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If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
