Redd Foxx Quotes

I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

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• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movies
  • Watch
  • Over

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Help
  • Appreciate

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Answer

• We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Mind
  • Growth

• Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Analysis

• The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

  

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
  • American
  • High
  • Education

• Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Healthy
  • Frying

• The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Beginning
  • Goddess
  • Teaches

• I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Book
  • Positive
  • Mad

• The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

  

  Nancy Lieberman
  • Difference
  • Winner
  • Loser

• I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky...

  

  Arthur Dove
  • Sky
  • Fishing
  • Background

• I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.

  

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