American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.


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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
CHRIS LOWE
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL
The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su...
CHRIS FUSSELL
I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because...
CHRIS PINE
I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,...
CHRIS EVANS
I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard beca...
CHRIS STOKES
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN
The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea...
CHRIS PINE
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK
It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with tha...
CHRIS ROCK
We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise...
CHRIS PAVONE
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK
I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes ba...
CHRIS PINE
I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go...
CHRIS O'DOWD
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha...
CHRIS MESSINA
Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO
There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spande...
CHRIS JERICHO
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr...
CHRIS EVANS
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti...
CHRIS LOWELL
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also...
CHRIS HEDGES
Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power ...
CHRIS HEDGES
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE
I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas...
CHRIS EVANS
I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex...
CHRIS SACCA
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN
Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle...
CHRIS PRATT
I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I...
CHRIS SACCA
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
CHRIS HART
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK
We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS
In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN
Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA
I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE
China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH
So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER