Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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My father had very little formal education.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person who is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And Donald Trump thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.
