Richard Pryor Quotes
What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
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The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
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Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
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America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
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If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.
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I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.
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What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
