Chris Rock Quotes
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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I consider myself black.
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I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all upon the subject.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.
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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
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Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.
