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.
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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.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.
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I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Here's Your Sign Reloaded (2003)
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There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
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The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
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What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
