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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
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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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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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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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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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Freebase? What's free about it?
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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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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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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
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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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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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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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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
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It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
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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 went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
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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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