Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

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• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Know

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Community

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • People
  • Taste
  • Hotels

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Science
  • Sex
  • Baseball

• My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

  

  Richard Virenque
  • Stage
  • Around
  • Last

• I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Win
  • Fail

• To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

  

  Charlotte Rampling

• I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Country
  • Job

• I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • People
  • Truth