Chris Tucker Quotes
I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
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In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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Mitt and his ilk are always saying, 'If only we ran the government more like a business.' No! Government is there specifically for the things that are not supposed to run like a business. Government is not supposed to make a profit.
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I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
