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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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.
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I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
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If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.
