Richard Pryor Quotes
I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
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Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.
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And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.
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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
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The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
