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Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
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Chris Rock
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 7
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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.
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Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
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Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
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Kids raised on a culture of “We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.” Or just ignoring race to a fault. You can’t say “the black kid over there.” No, it’s “the guy with the red shoes.” You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.
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Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.
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Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
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I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.
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When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.
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You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense
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You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.
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Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.
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I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.
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When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!
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You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
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I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.
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Hollywood's just not funny.
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If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'
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If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
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I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
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So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.
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