Chris Rock Quotes

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

Chris Rock

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Author Biography

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

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I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

Jessica Lange

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I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

Jenna Bush

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Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete.

Steve Jurvetson

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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.

Ron DeSantis

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It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

Michael Shanks

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Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Miyamoto Musashi

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I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

Jason Day

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There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Dennis Farina

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For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

Brendan O'Carroll

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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

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