"The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done."

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Source : "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.

Scott Raab

#Style Quotes #Done Quotes #Intense Quotes

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Source : Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814
“So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.”
“Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind!”
“Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.”

Source : "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (song) (1949)
“Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.”
“There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities. When this has happened, if not before, the ban on doping in sport will have been lifted.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.”
“Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.”

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