Richard Pryor Quotes
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
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You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
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There will be killing till the score is paid.
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You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
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Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.
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I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.
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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
