Richard Pryor Quotes
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
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I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
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My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!
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But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.
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Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
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There were cool bug spider monsters and fire and blood and guts - what's not to like?
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The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
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People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
