"I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity."

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David Rees

#Profanity Quotes

“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”
“Well Iâ€™ve been doing it for about twenty years, I did films when I was a little kid, when I was about six or seven, I was in films and I had this really high voice, I did a series called Dinobabies, that was my first one. And then after that I did Madeline, yeah so it just kind of happened and then never went away. Then everyone said your voice is going to change and youâ€™ll be out... No, no, still on helium.”
“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. Itâ€™s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”
“Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter
“Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.”
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
“But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.”
“Iâ€™ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.”

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