Richard Pryor Quotes
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
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Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.
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I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.
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They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.
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As a culture, we really like our food passive.
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On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton emphasized her experience. Yes, experience matters, but judgment matters more. Despite her experience, Hillary Clinton's poor decisions have produced bad results. Just think about it.
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Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.
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When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
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As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
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Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
