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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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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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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 urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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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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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.
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I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
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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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