Richard Pryor Quotes
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.
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The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
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Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
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All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.
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I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.
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When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.
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Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.
Colson Whitehead -
The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
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I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
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I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
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One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
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Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
