Redd Foxx Quotes
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.
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How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.
