Bobby McFerrin Quotes
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Think and grow rich.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.
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People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
