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"Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention."
"My job is to stop Britain from going red."
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
"It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
"Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap."
"The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined."
"When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free."
"If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet"
"I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate."
"Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior."
"How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue."
"The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers."
"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
"Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone."
"Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red.""
"The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'"
"It's so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper. [Squeals.] So then I go in interviews and I'm like, 'I'm like a chihuahua! I'm shaking and peeing!' And then afterwards, I'm like, 'I just talked about peeing on the red carpet.'"
"Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems."
"You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny."
"Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume."
