Chris Rock Quotes

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

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Author Biography

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

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Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

John Lee Hancock

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Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

John Lasseter

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The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

Robert M. Pirsig

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I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Matthew Modine

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I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.

Amor Towles

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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

Tony Campolo

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You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Roy Bean

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I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Michelle Obama

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I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Lubna Olayan

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The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Bryant H. McGill

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I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.

Asa Butterfield

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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

Wyclef Jean

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