Richard Pryor Quotes
There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.
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Two broken pieces making a whole.
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When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
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The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.
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I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.
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The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
