Richard Pryor Quotes
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.
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I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
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The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.
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When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.
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If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
