Richard Pryor Quotes

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

Richard Pryor

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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Growth

• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Power
  • Bad

• I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Hero

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Wine

• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• A lot of films come out before they're finished.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Come
  • Finished
  • Out

• Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Charity
  • Behavior
  • Principle

• I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • World
  • Athletes
  • Expert

• The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Way
  • Film

• I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

  

  Lara Fabian
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Queen

• Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Life
  • Death
  • Balance

• My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Father
  • Bargain
  • Tighter

• When we’re afraid, we have a tendency to pray and ask God for peace before we’ll step out and do what frightens us. But most of the time, we simply need to move forward.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • God
  • Afraid
  • Pray

• Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Stars
  • Expression
  • Ghetto