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My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.
— Chris Rock
Tags: live, red, thinking, culture

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When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.
— Chris Rock
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Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
— Chris Rock
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Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
— Chris Rock
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
— Chris Rock
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Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
— Chris Rock
Tags: new, believe, people, good
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