Richard Pryor Quotes
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
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George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.
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We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
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I think each one of us has committed to improving.
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When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
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When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
