Chris Rock Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm a proud family man.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Men cannot live forever But they must die forever....
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.
