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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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Redd Foxx
television actor, actor, comedian
1922 – 1991
John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub act before and during the civil rights movement. Known as the "King of the Party Records", he performed on more than 50 records in his lifetime. He portrayed Fred G. Sanford on the television show Sanford and Son and starred in The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family, where he played the husband of Della Reese and grandfather of Larenz Tate.
All Quotes by Redd Foxx
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Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
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If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you're on the toilet.
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Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass.
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My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.
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We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.
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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
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