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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.
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When it comes down to business, everybody is very businesslike... I have never felt any difficulty in dealing with any of these situations.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.