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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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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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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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
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Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.
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Calm down, Think different, Find your way.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
