Richard Pryor Quotes

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

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• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Everything

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Kind
  • Going

• Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Most

• I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Years
  • Young
  • Old

• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • Up
  • Family
  • Light

• I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

  

  Bianca Jagger

• To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Kids

• We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Believe

• Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Family
  • Business

• Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

  

  Michael LeBoeuf
  • Business
  • inspirational
  • Company

• See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Reality

• I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea in '1984' that if you keep saying you're being attacked then you can get away with anything has come true.

  

  James Marsh
  • Kids
  • America
  • True

• I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Business
  • Kissing