Chris Rock Quotes

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

Chris Rock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
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  • Birth: February 7, 1965

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An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

Jimmy Johnson

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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

John Gregory Dunne

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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvell

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After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

Steve Ells

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I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

Jose Andres

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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

Brian Celio

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It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Arianna Huffington

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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Wislawa Szymborska

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I get by with a little help from my friends.

Ringo Starr

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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Richard Rogers

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John McCain was one of the senators who voted against George Herbert Walker Bush's disastrous break of his no new taxes pledge when he raised taxes in 1990. That's really important. He's a supply-sider. And he's got supply siders like Phil Graham and Jack Kemp to vouch for that.

Kellyanne Conway

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