Quote by Dick Gregory
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasnt a Christian, she would stomp you to death. – Dick Gregory

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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, If I couldnt get paid for this, Id do it for free. Whens the last time you ever heard a business person say, If I couldnt get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, Id do it for free? – Dick Gregory

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Business
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. – Dick Gregory

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Christmas
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth. – Dick Gregory

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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. – Jessica Lange

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Death

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. Its like death. – Dennis Quaid

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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. – Kevin Spacey

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I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, Ive always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on. – Guy Laliberte

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One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water. – Lee Trevino, describing how he was one under during a tournament

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Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, Id do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. – Steve Martin

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