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?
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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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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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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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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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
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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?
