Jamie Foxx Quotes

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Jamie Foxx

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1967

Topics

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So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

Joel Hodgson

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I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

Mayer Hawthorne

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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

John McCain

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What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?

Jeff Fortenberry

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Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Louisa May Alcott

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I'm an Obama chick.

Judy Blume

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If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm going to be scared, but I'm not going to hide behind my son to protect me. They're going to hide behind me.

Jon Seda

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Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.

Johnny Iuzzini

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In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.

Claire Messud

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Toronto is a world-class city. You don't have a debate here about immigration because you need it to just maintain your pensions: that's dependent on people coming in to fund that. And again, I don't want to be controversial, but I think the average education level in Canada is probably higher than in the United States.

Shahid Khan

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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.

Lynn Nottage

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