Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
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My mother has been an advocate for me as far as modeling goes.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
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Nobody should have to clean up what goes on around the base of most toilets.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
