Jay Pharoah Quotes
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.
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Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all that out there. God bless you.
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The only weapon we have is the comedy.
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You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.
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A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
