Chris Tucker Quotes

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

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• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

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• I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
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• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

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• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

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• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

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  • Good
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• It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
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• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

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  • Why
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• For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

  

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  • Me
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• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • People
  • Dress
  • Observation

• Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
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• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

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  • Childhood
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• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

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• For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

  

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• I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.

  

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• It's really great to see fans all over the world.

  

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  • World
  • Great

• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Character
  • Faith

• For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins.

  

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  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Comedy