Richard Pryor Quotes

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Richard Pryor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005

Topics

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Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

Anderson Silva

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I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Amy Grant

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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Studs Terkel

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What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.

Tracy Chapman

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The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

Tom Dempsey

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While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Michael Korda

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We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.

Jay DeMarcus

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I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you'll be fine.

Cory Hardrict

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Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

Clifford D. Simak

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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

Claire Tomalin

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I don't want to continue to fund Obamacare.

Phil Gingrey

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Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

Sheila Jackson Lee

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