Richard Pryor Quotes

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

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• After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Said

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Society
  • Free
  • Past

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hurt
  • Effect
  • Terribly

• I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

  

  Bob Lemon
  • Home
  • Bad

• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• It wasn't getting worse at all. It was just feeling tight.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Feeling
  • Health

• A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Power
  • Patience

• California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Matter
  • California

• To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Love
  • Forever

• When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring?

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Past
  • Records
  • Desert

• Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

  

  William Osler
  • Practice
  • Feels
  • Records

• Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Should
  • Records
  • Three

• A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Never
  • Tension
  • Breaking

• You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

  

  Richard Pryor
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