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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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 wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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If I'm backed into a corner, the first thing that comes to mind is the robot from Forbidden Planet. But that could be me trying to be kitschy, cool, and cultural, because the real answer is R2D2.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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People's lives are boring.
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I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
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Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.