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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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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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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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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My desk is my drums.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues
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Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
