Richard Pryor Quotes
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Hear the other side.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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Think with your whole body.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? … What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?
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I fear my ignorance.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
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I haven't watched telly for years.
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
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I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.
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I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.
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Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
