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There's Bad And Then There's Eddy Curry Bad.
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There's Bad And Then

Chris Rock
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There's Bad And Then There's Eddy Curry Bad.

Understanding the Quote: "there's bad and then there's eddy curry bad...."

This quote by Chris Rock reflects deeply on the theme of curry. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Curry, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Daughter
Winning
If You’re A Black Christian, You Have A Real Short Memory.
Christian
Memories
Real
The Two Best Things You Can Do For A Person Is Have Sex Or Make Them Laugh.
Sex
Two
Laughing
Men Do Not Settle Down. Men Surrender.
Love
Men
Surrender
When People Try To Read Between The Lines - Critics, They Have A Job. Their Job Is To Make Something Bigger Than It Is.
Jobs
People
Trying
Stand-up Comedy Is Like The Lowest Medium In All Of Show Business In Levels Of Respect.
Levels
Comedy
Mediums
Most Parts In Comedy, They're Not Really Written For Men. They're Written For, Like, These Boy-men.
Boys
Men
Comedy
The Thing I Try To Get Across To The Writers - And I Do A Lot Of Writing, Too - Is That When I Do Stand-up, Nothing I Talk About Is Funny. Everything Is Really Sad And Tragic And Then I Make It Funny.
Fun
Writing
Trying
Learn How To Cook. Read Books That Will Educate You. Get An Education. Get A Career. And Support Yourself. And Live In A Section Of Town That Isn't Conducive To Violence.
Book
Careers
Support
Remember When We Was Young, Everybody Used To Have These Arguments About Who's Better, Michael Jackson Or Prince? Prince Won!
Funny
Humor
Remember
I Get Approached To Do Shows All The Time. There's A Lot Of Money In Sitcoms, But I've Never Been The Kind Of Guy Who Wanted To Do One. I Don't Think People Want To See Me Saying "honey, I'm Home." It's Just Not My Thing.
Home
Thinking
People
You Can't Have Anything Valuable In Your House. Niggers Will Break In And Take It All! Everything White People Don't Like About Black People, Black People Don't Like About Black People. It's Like Our Own Personal Civil War. On One Side, There's Black People. On The Other, You've Got Niggers. The Niggers Have Got To Go. I Love Black People, But I Hate Niggers. I Am Tired Of Niggers. Tired, Tired, Tired.
Hate
War
Tired
Yeah, I Love Being Famous. It's Almost Like Being White, Y'know?
Funny
Humor
White
Oprah Is Rich; Bill Gates Is Wealthy. If Bill Gates Woke Up Tomorrow With Oprah's Money, He'd Jump Out Of A Window And Slit His Throat On The Way Down Saying, 'i Can't Even Put Gas In My Plane!'
Money
Bills
Way
I Mean No Disrespect To Anything I Did Before.
Mean
Disrespect
Black Movies Don't Have Real Names, They Have Names Like Barbershop. That's Not A Name, That's Just A Location.
Real
Names
Black
Shaq Is Rich. The White Man Who Signs His Check... Is Wealthy. "ah, Here You Go, Shaq. Go Buy Yourself A Bouncing Car. Bling, Bling!"
Funny
Humor
Men
Two Hours Of Sparkling Entertainment Spread Out Over A Four-hour Show.
Funny
Humor
Two
Women Can Have All The Evidence But They Still Want The Confession.
Want
Confession
Evidence
Comedy Is A Group Activity, A Verbal Orgy.
Groups
Comedy
Activity
The Government Hates Rap. That's Why They Don't Arrest Anybody That Kills Rappers! Only The Good Ones Are Dead, Man! Only The Good Ones: Biggie Dead, Tupac Dead, Vanilla Ice Still Alive! They Don't Fill Out A Police Report. They Don't Even Have A Chalk Line When It's A Dead Rapper, They Just Take A Piss Around The Body.
Funny
Hate
Rap
I Just Thought Everybody Lived Around Abandoned Buildings And Crack-heads, ... I Lived In The Ghetto Until I Was Like 19. I Came To Los Angeles, Stayed At Hotels And Stuff. When I Got Back And I Saw What My Neighborhood Looked Like, I Started Getting Scared.
Funny
Humor
Ghetto
I Love Having Somebody There - That Companion Thing. You Know Who You're Going To Eat With, Who You're Going To See A Movie With.
Companion
Knows
I Think My Best Work Is When I'm Kind Of In Charge.
Thinking
Kind
Best Work
You Know, Some People Say Life Is Short And That You Could Get Hit By A Bus At Any Moment And That You Have To Live Each Day Like It's Your Last. Bullshit. Life Is Long. You're Probably Not Gonna Get Hit By A Bus. And You're Gonna Have To Live With The Choices You Make For The Next Fifty Years.
Life Is Short
Humor
Cherish Every Moment
I'll Probably Pay More Attention To The Musicians In The Pit Than The Stars Because They're The Closest You're Going To Get To Normal People In The Audience.
Stars
People
Musician
One Of My Daughters Told Me The Other Day, "kevin Hart Is Funnier Than You, Daddy." I Told Her, "does Kevin Hart Make You Pancakes?"
Daughter
Daddy
Doe
By The Time I Was 7 Or 8, I Wanted To Be A Comedy Writer.
Comedy
Wanted
If You Told Me Two Years I Would Miss The Greatest Basketball Game Ever To Hang Out With Nathan Lane, I'd Say, 'you're Crazy!'
Basketball
Crazy
Years
You Got A Gun, You Don't Have To Work Out.
Gun
Work Out
My Movies Are Okay, But They're Not My Specials.
Okay
And Even If You Get Shot By A Stray Bullet, You Don't Gotta Go To No Doctor To Get It Taken Out, Whoever Shot You Will Take They Bullet Back! "i Believe You Have My Property!"
Funny
Believe
Taken
Guys Play Characters That Won't Grow Up And Something Catastrophic Happens And They Have To Grow Up To Save The Day - That's Pretty Much What Today's Comedy Is About.
Growing Up
Character
Play
Hollywood's Racist. Hollywood Is Sorority Racist. It's Like - We Like You, Rhonda, But You're Not A Kappa.
Awards
Rocks
Hollywood
I Like The Tradition Of The Oscars. I Like That Some Of The Greatest Comedians Ever Have Hosted The Show.
Comedian
Oscars
Tradition
You Can Only Offend Me If You Mean Something To Me.
Bullying
Mean
Ifs
Kennedy Didn't Beat Nixon. Satire Beat Nixon.
Satire
Beats
When You Meet Somebody For The First Time, You're Not Meeting Them. You're Meeting Their Representative.
Firsts
First Time
Meetings
Even If You Meet The Perfect Person, It Ain’t Gonna Be At The Perfect Time. You’re Married, They’re Single. That’s Right. You’re Jewish, They’re Palestinian. You’re A Mexican, They’re A Raccoon. You’re A Black Woman, He’s A Black Man.
Men
Perfect
Mexican
I Want To Really Take Chances. I Want To Be Funny In A Lot Of Different Ways. I'd Like To Be Great. I Want To Reach For Greatness.
Greatness
Different
Want
I Love Black People, But I Hate Niggers.
Hate
People
Black
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!'
Funny
Rap
Home
I Live In A Neighborhood So Bad That You Can Get Shot While Getting Shot.
Funny
Humor
Rocks
I Never Had The Confidence To Say I Was Going To Be In Front Of The Camera As A Comedian Until I Saw Eddie Murphy Years Later.
Years
Comedian
Cameras
People Want What They Want. And I Guess That Is A Reason We Have This Big Credit Card Problem And A Lot Of These Foreclosures.
People
Cards
Credit
If You're The President You Only Have Two Jobs: Peace And Money.
Jobs
Two
President
When You Have Kids, There's No Such Thing As Quality Time. There's Just Time. There's No, 'ooh, His Graduation's Better Than Going To The Mall.' It's All Kind Of Equal. Changing Her Diaper And Her Winning A Contest - It's All Good.
Fathers Day
Dad
Kids
A Cat, By Any Other Name, Is Still A Sneaky Little Furball That Barfs On The Furniture.
Cat
Names
Littles
We Were So Poor My Daddy Unplugged The Clocks When We Went To Bed.
Daddy
Bed
Poor
A Comedy Club Is A Place Where You Work Out Material, You're Trying Material.
Work Out
Trying
Clubs
I'll Go With The Guy With One House. The Guy With One House Is Scared About Losing His House.
House
Guy
Losing
You Can't Fake Comedy - It's Not Like A Movie, Where A Director Can Just Cast A Pretty Face.
Fake
Directors
Faces
For The Most Part, Comedy Is The Only Fair Part Of Show Business.
Comedy
Shows
Show Business
Being A Comedian Is A Lot Like Being An Athlete. If You're Carl Lewis And You're The Fastest, Then No Matter What You're The Fastest.
Athlete
Comedian
Matter
I Never Watched The Oscars. Come On, It's A Fashion Show . . . What Straight Black Man Sits There And Watches The Oscars? Show Me One. And They Don't Recognize Comedy, And You Don't See A Lot Of Black People Nominated, So Why Should I Watch It?
Fashion
Men
People
There's A Difference Between Racism And "i Don't Know Any Better. I'm Clueless." Racism Is Like, "i'm Trying To Make You Feel Bad." That's Racism.
Clueless
Differences
Racism
You Only Know That You're Smart Because You're Around Dumb People From Time To Time!
Smart
People
Dumb
A Comedian Has To Live In His Head. All This Comedy Comes From A Lonely Place. When You're Surrounded By An Entourage, You're Not Living In Your Head.
Lonely
Comedian
Comedy
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.
Funny
Ideas
People
I Don't Write Jokes First. I Write Down Topics. I Think Of What I Want To Talk About, And Then I Write The Jokes - They Don't Write Me... And Even If You Don't Think It's Funny, You Won't Think It's Boring. You Might Disagree, But You'll Listen. And Maybe Even Laugh As You Disagree.
Writing
Thinking
Laughing
I'm Pretty Good At Getting Over People Throwing Stuff At Me. If You've Been Doing Stand Up Long Enough You Know How To Swing Back And Get The Laughs.
Long
People
Laughing
The U.s Government Hates Rap Music
Hate
Rap
Government
Artistically I'm Curious. But In Life? No. I Can Go To A Restaurant And Order The Same Thing For 10 Years.
Order
Years
Curious
That's A Sure Sign Someone Is Going Crazy - When He Refers To Himself In The Third Person, Talks In Low Tones, And Walks Around Wearing Shades All Day!
Crazy
Shade
Tone
I've Been Married For 10 Years And, You Know, It's Hard, You Spruce It Up And You Go Places. How Do You Spruce Up Anything? Artificially. You Go Places And Do Things.
Years
Married
Knows
See... Relationships Are Hard, Man. For Order, For Any Relationship To Work, Both People Have To Be On The Same Page, Both People Have To Have The Same Focus, And We All Know What That Page Is. We All Know What That Focus Is. In Order For The Relationship To Work Both People Have To Have The Same Focus, And What's That Focus? That Focus Is All About Her! It's All About Her!
Funny
Humor
Men
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