Chris Rock Quotes

I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material.

Chris Rock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We live in a very funny world, and it's easier for me as a single man to say I don't like children, because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Jimmy Savile

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I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.

Trent Reznor

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Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

Tom Hayden

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There's one thing to say about John Boehner. He's a fighter. He does fight. And if there is somebody you want in the foxhole with you, it's going to be John Boehner.

Tom Graves

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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.

Mike D

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I like being in the '60s.

Dennis Farina

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There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Demi Moore

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We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

David Shields

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The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

Christopher Guest

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I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times a week.

Colin Jost

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The only risk of failure is promotion.

Scott Adams

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