Richard Pryor Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I hate the word sexy.
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
