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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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
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You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
