Richard Pryor Quotes
Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.
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I'm not saying everything in Sweden is perfect, because it's not. But it is interesting having grown up in a social democratic country such as Sweden and then watching what's going on in the U.S. and the income disparity.
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I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.
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I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
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Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
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Every win that I've been going through, it's been securing anyone's doubts or even my own doubts about whether I belong with these guys, playing these high-level tournaments.
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Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
