Richard Pryor Quotes
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
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From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.
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With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.
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I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.
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I used to actually work in a comic book stores in New York.
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I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.
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Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
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Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
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I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.
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Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
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I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.
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Science rules!
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
