Chris Tucker Quotes

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

Chris Tucker

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• After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

• The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Story
  • Learned
  • Create

• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Fate
  • Situation
  • Conscious

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Pretty
  • Choice
  • New York

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Jesus
  • Heaven
  • Teacher

• I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Place
  • Sure

• For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Age
  • Pretty

• The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

  

  Tacitus

• • Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Team
  • Training

• The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

  

  Peter Serafinowicz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Invest

• 'But why do you want me? I mean, what am I? Ask yourself that.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Why

• Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Innovation
  • Mathematics
  • Subjects

• Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Planet
  • Governs

• Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

  

  Chris Tucker