Richard Pryor Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
Taufik Hidayat -
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
Rachel Platten -
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
Tariq Ali -
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen -
People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
LaToya London -
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
Vicente Fox -
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
Rachel Cusk -
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
C. Wright Mills -
So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
Jane Goodall -
...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
Akio Morita -
It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.
Kyle MacLachlan -
Sexism is real.
Martha McSally
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
Bill Hader -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
Stephen Bruce -
I was born in the U.S., and that's who I rep. Although when the winter Olympics come around, I'm pretty partial to Norway's success and what they do.
Anders Holm -
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.
Hallgrimur Helgason -
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor