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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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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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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Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
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If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
