Redd Foxx Quotes

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

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• Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mean
  • Listen
  • Blind

• I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Human
  • Insecure

• God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Love
  • Blind

• When one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Purpose

• You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. What has happened to me now has not happened of itself, but it is clear to me that it was better for me to die now and to escape from trouble. That is why my divine sign did not oppose me at any point. So I am certainly not angry with those who convicted me, or with my accusers. Of course that was not their purpose when they accused and convicted me, but they thought they were hurting me, and for this they deserve blame.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Blame
  • Hurting

• The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Strange
  • Lear

• Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

  

  George Jung
  • America
  • President
  • Youth

• Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

  

  Amy Dickinson
  • Advice
  • Self-Serving
  • Unsolicited

• Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Theater
  • Opposite
  • Fascism

• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Food
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• You wore out a brand new trunk, packin' and unpackin your junk.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Junk
  • Trunk

• He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junk blossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Seeds
  • Junk
  • Algorithms

• If you have a problem at that level where there is hatred, prejudice, and anger, that has nothing to do with the other person. What is wrong with you that you are feeling that way? Look at yourself. Quite often it is their upbringing or their parent's problems. You got to get free. At some point you have to take responsibility for your actions.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Feelings

• It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.

  

  Zella Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Junk
  • Uncles