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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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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 think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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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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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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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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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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I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
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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.
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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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