Chris Rock Quotes
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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.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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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.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
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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.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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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.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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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.
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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.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing.
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
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Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
