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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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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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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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
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I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
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I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
