Richard Pryor Quotes

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

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• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Very
  • Well
  • Paid

• I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • New
  • Paid
  • Dues

• I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Help

• Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Find
  • Paid
  • Bonus

• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Two
  • Reputation
  • Dues

• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Paid
  • Pretending

• Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Know
  • Paid

• And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Paid

• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

  

  William James
  • Effort
  • Forget
  • Paid

• O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Differences

• A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Smile
  • Paid
  • Rewarded

• I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Money
  • Audience
  • Point

• I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Done
  • Quality
  • Issues

• There will be killing till the score is paid.

  

  Homer
  • Killing
  • Paid
  • Score

• You work, you get paid, you drink.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Work
  • Drink
  • Paid

• Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Paid

• Just because you paid a lot for it, doesn't mean it's nice.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • Nice
  • Paid

• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Book
  • Want
  • Beach

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Step
  • Mental

• You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

  

  Richard Pryor
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