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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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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
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You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
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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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I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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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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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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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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The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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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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Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
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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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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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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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Freebase? What's free about it?
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