Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.Jamie Foxx
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
Jack Welch -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen -
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino -
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
Sade Adu -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
Dan DeCarlo
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu -
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky -
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
B. B. King -
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor Swift
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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
Bernie Mac -
You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
Janet Weiss -
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck -
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
Merle Haggard -
A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.
Jamie Foxx