Richard Pryor Quotes
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
Zac Brown Band -
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
Ornette Coleman -
I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
Madeline Zima -
How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
Pat Buchanan -
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis -
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Dalai Lama -
Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.
Kaja Foglio -
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
Larry Brilliant -
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael -
America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
Gary Bauer -
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
Oscar Isaac -
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
Vash Young -
Our sketchbooks and studies – as well as the paintings and photos, convey the detail of our Tunisian impressions. At times we got along well – at times not at all – we took walks in the city and also in the Belvedere park – it was never boring with my beloved , but we didn't made contact with any other people; he never wanted it.
Gabriele Munter -
We have to face the world like it is before we can make it what it should be.
Alex Bledsoe -
Solid state I don't like, even though I started it.
Wolfgang Paul
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When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
Blixa Bargeld -
When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started.
Eldar Djangirov -
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
Michel Martelly -
The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
Richard Pryor