Richard Pryor Quotes
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
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I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
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Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
