Richard Pryor Quotes
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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I am an organization freak!
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I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
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I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
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When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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That one was stunt heavy. 'Monster Trucks' was a lot of stunts. I got to do some insane stunts they should've never let me do.
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I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
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I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
