Richard Pryor Quotes

I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

Richard Pryor

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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Sun
  • Red
  • Lucky

• I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Weigh

• I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Words
  • Light
  • Speak

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Citizen
  • Tribute

• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Songwriting

• Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Work
  • Think
  • Truck

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Earth
  • Land
  • Planet

• I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Happy
  • Walking

• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Violence
  • Forget
  • Vanity

• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Hollywood
  • Creative Process
  • Technology companies

• You learn more from failure than you do from success.

  

  Nic Offer !!!
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Walking
  • Forget
  • Week