Richard Pryor Quotes
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
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When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
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There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
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I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
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Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
