Richard Pryor Quotes
I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.
Richard Pryor
Quotes to Explore
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
Oswald Chambers
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
Ben Bernanke
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
Haile Selassie
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
Ken Robinson
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
Charles William Eliot
Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.
Natalie Portman
Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.
Sarah Kay
Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
Balian of Ibelin
To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
Naomi Cleaver
You do realize that makes it even more tempting.
Bella Andre
I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.
Ana Martin
I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
Karan Mahajan
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.
John Lukacs