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 -
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
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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 -
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Sam Brownback -
We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom -
I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.
Kurt Vile
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The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
Charles Dickens -
If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
Sam Heughan -
'Shameless' was the first project I've ever booked, and I'm really happy for it!
Emma Kenney -
When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''
Marti Noxon -
Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
Chris Rock