Richard Pryor Quotes

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• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Imagination
  • Player

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

  

  Ice T
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Competitive

• As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Die

• I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

• I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Family
  • Parents

• The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

  

  Brooke Langton

• We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Nature
  • Engineering

• It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • People
  • Great

• A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Die
  • Attitude
  • Save

• My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Star
  • Young
  • Wanted

• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Habit

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

  

  Richard Pryor
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