Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
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There is always pressure in football.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.
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For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
