Redd Foxx Quotes
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
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The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
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MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE tell the story of Jesus in ways similar to one another which is why they’re often called the synoptic gospels—with a similar optic, or viewpoint. Many details differ and the differences are quite fascinating, but it’s clear the three compositions share common sources. The Fourth Gospel tells the story quite differently. These differences might disturb people who don’t understand that storytelling in the ancient world was driven less by a duty to convey true details accurately and more by a desire to proclaim true meaning powerfully. The ancient editors who put the New Testament together let the differences stand as they were, so each story can convey its intended meanings in its own unique ways.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.
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A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.
