Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • Language
  • Limits

• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Crazy
  • Execution

• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Team
  • Great Team

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • History
  • Progress

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
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  • Myself
  • Guilty

• That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Looking
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• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Song
  • Artist

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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  • Museum

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Fun
  • Support

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
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  • Friends

• Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.

  

  Gary Herbert
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  • Nation
  • Utah

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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  • Reality
  • Military

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Kind
  • Mom

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Believe

• I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

  

  Harriet Harman
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  • Different
  • Thought

• I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Lifestyle

• Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • America
  • Reality
  • Movies

• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Men
  • True

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
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  • Moving
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• As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Good
  • Thinking

• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
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  • Time
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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

  

  John Tillotson
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  • Contentment

• Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

  

  Vissarion Belinsky
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  • Worry
  • Incarnation

• I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

  

  Jamie Foxx
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  • Thinking