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All humor is rooted in pain.
Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
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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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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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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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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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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
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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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The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
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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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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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You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
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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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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 had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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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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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
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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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Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
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