Richard Pryor Quotes
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
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I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
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One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
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I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.
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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
