"I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day."
-Chris Rock
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"I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.“
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"There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments."
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"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."
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"Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life."
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"My movies are okay, but they're not my specials."
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"Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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