I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

Jamie Foxx

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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

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We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

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Black people are the most talented people in the world. by Jamie Foxx

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

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Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth by Jamie Foxx

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

birth rivers

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard. by Jamie Foxx

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

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If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the los... by Jamie Foxx

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

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I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

feelings water life

I live young and I keep the weight off of me. by Jamie Foxx

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.

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(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that? by Jamie Foxx

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

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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.

growing-up destiny thinking

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart. by Jamie Foxx

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

crazy stuff people

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!

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It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

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With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

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