Chris Rock Quotes
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.
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I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.
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When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.
