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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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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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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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
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I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.
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When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
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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?
