“Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Bring the Pain (HBO, 1996)
“Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Bring the Pain (HBO, 1996)
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Live performance of Everything in Its Right Place ( YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=aC_hHBX9PTk)
“Kind? This is DisCo, not Mother Teresa's home.”
Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 200
“In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.”
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971) English stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and voice actor
Borat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2l0nu6m2cw.
“It might be lonely up here but I sure like the view.”
Charlie Sheen (1965) American film and television actor
Additional quotations collected by Slate
“A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984).
“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Essay in North Star (November 1858); as quoted in Faces at the Bottom of the Well : The Permanence of Racism (1992) by Derrick Bell, p. 40
1850s
Context: We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action toward us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.