Richard Pryor Quotes
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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It's either 'Saw' made for $4 million or 'Star Wars,' 'Star Trek,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy' et cetera being made for $150 million. So the $30 and $40 million films don't get made unless they're maybe 'Ride Along.' But I don't really know why. I don't get paid to know why.
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I like having my autonomy; I like going into the vegetable aisle with little fanfare. Very few go into that star category, in that uber above-the-title category. The rest of us, day in and day out, we're there to support what they do.
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I never had that star aura.
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Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
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The only reason I ever shared my health journey with the world was because I felt it to be my duty to sufferers that are bed-ridden and dying because there has yet to be found a proper diagnostic test for Lyme Disease in this country.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
