Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Jamie Foxx

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• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Place
  • Boston

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Truth

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • World
  • Spiritual

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Learning
  • Doing

• There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Game
  • Best

• Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Path

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Years
  • Size

• When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Look
  • Run
  • Trees

• I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Player
  • Been

• Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Kind
  • Same
  • Heroes

• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Congress
  • Jewish
  • Some

• In contemplating what to do with my life, I felt like I had two possible paths: one was to move to New York and work in a design house; the other was to move to Africa and deliver food aid. That's when the idea of the FEED bag came to me. It's for those who want to put their consumer dollars to good use.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Society
  • Famous

• If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Different
  • Bad

• Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • High
  • Perfect
  • Comedy

• I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Athlete