Richard Pryor Quotes

All humor is rooted in pain.

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• All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • American
  • Today
  • Problems

• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Space
  • Fall

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• 'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • March

• Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.

  

  Eminem
  • Word
  • Get
  • Prick

• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • May
  • Help

• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • American
  • America
  • History

• I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

  

  Jessica Biel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Perfect

• It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • People
  • Time
  • Sad

• I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • Hair

• I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Dark

• I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Work
  • Women
  • Why

• I'm a firm believer that you get back what you put in.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Death
  • Giving

• Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Calm

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• All humor is rooted in pain.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Pain
  • Humour
  • Rooted