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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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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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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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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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 love connected culture.
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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.
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Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
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Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
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Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time... I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy.
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Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
