Redd Foxx Quotes

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Redd Foxx

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991

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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

John Barton

HopeMeKindWillInsightFirst

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Jeff Greenfield

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I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Shirley Knight

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You can't hate James Brown! Who hates James Brown?

Rosemarie DeWitt

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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

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I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

Michael McKean

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I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

Dexter Holland

MeSongFlyingNothingWriteUp

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Dayananda Saraswati

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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It's that way all the way down the line. I've got a boy coaching college ball and another son coaching high school. All the way down to summer leagues, all the way down to kids who are 14 years old. All those teams have a closer.

Bruce Sutter

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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Antoine Fuqua

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