Jay Pharoah Quotes
I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.
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I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?
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I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.
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I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
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Trust in your own untried capacity.
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I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.
