Chris Rock Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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[Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.
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Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
