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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My first instrument was bass, and the first thing that I remember learning to play that was better than a few notes was Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain.' If you're the guy who penned that bass riff, then you should probably be in some sort of fantasy band.
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Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I feel, as an artist, that we don't do enough to appreciate our fans. We are in this position because of the fans, and it's really a blessing.
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Dames are always pulling a switch on you.
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
