Chris Rock Quotes

Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it's a privilege.

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• I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Live
  • Culture

• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Should
  • I Can
  • Decide

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Look
  • Talking
  • Tenderness

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

  

  Douglas Adams
  • High

• The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Experience

• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Kids
  • Dance
  • Thanksgiving

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Being with my kids is the best, most fun thing; it's a privilege.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Kids
  • Fun