Redd Foxx Quotes
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.
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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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The economy is not in our i.e. black hands, we are not in control of economic power. We have identified the weaknesses in land reform. Willing buyer, willing seller did not work. It made the state’s price tag an unfair process. In addition there are many laws dealing with land which cause confusion and delays. … Land hunger is real.
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When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
