Chris Rock Quotes
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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I'll try anything once.
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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.
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By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us. (p. 375)
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.
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A man is only as faithful as his options.
