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.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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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.
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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.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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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.
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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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?
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.
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When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
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Considering I'm a young president, I wouldn't like to make an evaluation of myself. It's not my job to do that.
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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.
