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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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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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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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In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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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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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 don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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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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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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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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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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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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