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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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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
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I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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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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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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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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I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
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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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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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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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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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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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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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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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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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