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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
Richard Pryor
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I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
Richard Pryor
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
Richard Pryor
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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
Richard Pryor
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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.
Richard Pryor
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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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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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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
Richard Pryor
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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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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.
Richard Pryor
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Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
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There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
Richard Pryor
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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor
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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.
Richard Pryor
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
Richard Pryor
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If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.
Richard Pryor
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What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
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The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.
Richard Pryor
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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.
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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
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