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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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
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Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.
