Richard Pryor Quotes
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
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The next day, at breakfast and during the entire drive to Milan, he talked passionately about what he considered the most exciting period of his life, the years between 1945 and 1948. I heard in his voice a genuine melancholy, which vanished, however, when he went on to describe with an equally genuine enthusiasm the new climate of revolution, the energy—he said—that was infusing young and old. I kept nodding yes, struck by how important it was for him to convince me that my present was in fact the return of his thrilling past.
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
