Richard Pryor Quotes
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
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To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.
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Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
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You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.