Jay Pharoah Quotes

You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.

Jay Pharoah

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• I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Together
  • Doing

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
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• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Best
  • Monster
  • Mess

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Car

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Opinions

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Years

• I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Never
  • Ego
  • Self-Worth

• I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Sister
  • Being
  • Big

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

  

  David Sedaris
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.

  

  John Carmack
  • Value
  • Simplicity

• Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

  

  Frank McCourt

• A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

  

  Francis Parkman
  • Hand
  • Road
  • Military

• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Father