Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
