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Richard Pryor Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Day Prison Plan Every Day Back Go

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Think You Artist Look Back Go

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

Talent Organization Pictures Play

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

Michael Ignatieff

Experience Government Me Crazy Think

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

School High School Face Kid High

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

Women People You Perfect Hollywood

I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

Reading Appearance Back Goal First

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Dayananda Saraswati

Life Fate Blind Present Important

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Sports History Grateful Team Blessed

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.

Life Beautiful Walk Death Words Me

To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.'

Love Football Thought Pressure Dream

When it comes to social media tea, I recommend that you take it offline. Keep your comments at Happy Hour.

Social Media Tea Happy Media You

There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.

Marianne Elliott

Passion Time Ugly Me Theatre Boring

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