Eddie Murphy Quotes
Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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It's no treat being in bed with me.
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Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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I like poems that are little games.
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
