Chris Rock Quotes

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Man
  • Humor

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Win
  • Determination

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Common
  • Intelligence

• The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Think
  • Like
  • Jews

• I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.

  

  Kaskade
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Year

• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Relationships

• But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Sick

• The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Time
  • Black

• I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

  

  George R. R. Martin

• In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Lasts

• I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Girl
  • Son
  • Sweet

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Job