People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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