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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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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People say they get a warmness from me.
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I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
