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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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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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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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.
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It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
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Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip Saunders and his coaching prowess and his system.
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
