Eddie Murphy Quotes
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
