Jay Pharoah Quotes
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.
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[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
