Richard Pryor Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
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We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
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It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
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Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.
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Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.
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Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
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There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
