Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
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I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
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I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
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Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
