Jeff Foxworthy Quotes
Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
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When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.
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Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.
