Redd Foxx Quotes

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Strong
  • Physically

• I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Action
  • Doing
  • Adventure

• Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.

  

  Andrew Keegan

• My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • Life

• States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

  

  John Kitzhaber

• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Career

• [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Real
  • Financial
  • Economy

• I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

  

  Celia S. Friedman
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

  

  Lesley Stahl
  • Internet
  • Hacker

• Above all shadows rides the sun.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sun
  • Shadows
  • Rides

• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Sorrow
  • Poet
  • Instinct

• I liked performing, but not the struggle.

  

  Irene Cara Escalera
  • Struggle
  • Performing

• I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Feels
  • Drug
  • Drink