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.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Direction
  • Take That

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet

  

  B. Alan Wallace
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

  

  Xenobia Bailey
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Cycle Of Life

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up

• Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Past
  • Rest
  • Illusion

• Nature's first green is gold.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Nature
  • Gold
  • Green

• Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

  

  Omar Credle
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill

• 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.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Weakness

• 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.

  

  Alvaro Morata
  • Everyone
  • Grateful
  • Madrid

• Look up, get up and don't ever give up.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Look
  • Get
  • Give Up

• I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Smiling
  • Floating
  • String

• COME ON, I KNOW THE WEIRDEST THING. THE WEIRDEST THING IS THAT CHICK ............THAT CAME UP AND ASKED ME TO CUT HER WITH A KNIFE. ISN'T THAT THE WEIRDEST THING?

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Knows
  • Cutting
  • Knives

• I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

  

  Willie Randolph
  • Reality
  • Winning
  • Competition

• I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • World
  • Care

• 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.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Magazines
  • Knives