Redd Foxx Quotes

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

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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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Die

• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Should
  • Writer
  • Vulgar

• 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.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Street

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • House
  • Parents

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Europe

• We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Like
  • First
  • Felt

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
  • May
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

  

  J Allard
  • Work
  • Machines
  • Production

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Water
  • Band
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Inspiration
  • Head

• If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Hope
  • Cooking
  • Restaurant

• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Best
  • Better

• Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • Accept
  • Europe

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Hope
  • Legacy
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Collaboration

• 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.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Feelings
  • River
  • Illness

• If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Persons

• There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

  

  Malcolm X
  • More
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Important
  • Why
  • Think

• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Children
  • Decision

• I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Africa