Richard Pryor Quotes
I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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War is not a thing one wants.
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It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
