Eddie Murphy Quotes
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
