Chris Rock Quotes

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Chris Rock

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• You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Love
  • House
  • Always

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Respect
  • Composer
  • Embellish

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • World
  • Failure
  • Defeat

• There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Doing

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
  • Condition

• My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Free
  • Evil
  • King

• Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
  • Single
  • Winning

• I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Become

• I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this."

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • I Know
  • Contribute
  • I Can Do It

• No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Dream

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• Owning a bookstore was right up there with acting in life goals, but other than swaggering around the store, I'm not much use.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Goals

• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Desire
  • Wind
  • My Heart

• Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

  

  Chris Rock