Richard Pryor Quotes
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
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If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.
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It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.
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It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.
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The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
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It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
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TV is the best babysitter.
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I would love to go to England.
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We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
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I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
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Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.
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There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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'If the Jews were killed at Auschwitz or Treblinka or anywhere else...it wasn't a crime because they were Jews, it was a crime because they were innocent Jews who were being killed. It was their innocence that made...it a crime and not their Jewishness that made it a crime.'
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My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.
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I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
