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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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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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.
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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
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Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.
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When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution. – page 120.
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Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
