Richard Pryor Quotes
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
Quotes to Explore
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.
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I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
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I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
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I'm not sure I'm a good cook. But I like cooking, and it's a real family thing - an expression of love being together.
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That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
