Chris Rock Quotes
My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I'm just not very funny.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that has been upheld.
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The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.
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You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
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My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
