Eddie Murphy Quotes
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Life is like an analogy.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
