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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
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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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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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All humor is rooted in pain.
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I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
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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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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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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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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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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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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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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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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 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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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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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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