Redd Foxx Quotes
The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
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The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.
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The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
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Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
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We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.
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Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
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The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
