Richard Pryor Quotes
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
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It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.
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I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
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All humor is rooted in pain.
