Jay Pharoah Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I hit the jackpot in love.
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I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.
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A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.
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I'm known for impressions and family stories.
