Richard Pryor Quotes
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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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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 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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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
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I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
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To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
