Chris Rock Quotes

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Fawn-Colored

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mirror

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

  

  Ice T
  • Easy
  • Week
  • Can

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Years

• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Communication

• I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Small
  • Go
  • Hills

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Desire
  • Acting
  • Process

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Moral

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Time
  • True

• Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has'un-cable' practices they hope to extend.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Hope
  • Pretty
  • Small

• You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Character
  • Wonder

• Nous désirons passionnément qu'il y ait une autre vie où nous serions pareils à ce que nous sommes ici-bas. Mais nous ne réfléchissons pas que, même sans attendre cette autre vie, dans celle-ci, au bout de quelques années, nous sommes infidèles à ce que nous avons été, à ce que nous voulions rester immortellement.

  

  Marcel Proust

• That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Tree

• My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

  

  Chris Rock