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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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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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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Nobody in this world thinks they're having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren't getting enough.
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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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I always have oatmeal before training or a match. It's easy on the stomach, offers so many vitamins and minerals, and is slow-burning, so it won't leave me hungry at half-time.
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Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
