Redd Foxx Quotes
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
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Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
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Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.
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Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.
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Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.
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Later as things progressed and I saw the direct correlation between being able to keep making records and having people know about the music, I became more interested in using popular media as a way to get the word out.
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.
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I will always be grateful to Madrid. I never said a bad word about anybody there. Everyone there, even the president, treated me really well always.
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Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.
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Look up, get up and don't ever give up.
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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
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It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.
