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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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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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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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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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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My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
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If you ask me, I have not really seen any negative side of this industry. I have not met those kinds of people who can change the way I see this industry and make me feel that it's a bad or a dark place.
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
