Richard Pryor Quotes
I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
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I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
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Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.
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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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You do realize that makes it even more tempting.
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I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
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Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.
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To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?
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When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!
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I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.
