Richard Pryor Quotes

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

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• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Competition

• There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Football
  • Understanding
  • Discipline

• The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Wish
  • Style
  • Fighting

• Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Words
  • Fear

• I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Champion

• There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Country
  • Serious

• I think that by doing the podcast, I've grown to actually enjoy hosting a little more and realize that my role is a bit of a host, even though I thought I was totally avoiding that by creating this construct. But hosting a late night show has never really been a goal of mine in particular, but it could be fun.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Fun
  • Night

• All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Age

• I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

  

  Kenneth Clarke
  • Power
  • Party
  • Progress

• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up

• I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Mind

• Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • Hair

• When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

  

  John Webster
  • Up
  • Men
  • Wolf

• We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Together

• I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Artist

• Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Technology
  • Radio
  • Eaten

• Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Eye