Chris Rock Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian -
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell -
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
Caitlin Doughty -
Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
Carl Forti -
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
Kara Swisher
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
Ted Yoho -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler -
My opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl Lagerfeld -
My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
Madeleine Peyroux -
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
Malala Yousafzai -
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Gavin Newsom -
I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
Gary Speed -
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
Wendy Davis -
Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
Nancy Pickard -
I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
Orlando Jones
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People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
Andrew Bernstein -
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Martha Reeves -
My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.
Karan Patel -
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
John Thune -
Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
Chris Rock