Richard Pryor Quotes
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
Richard Pryor
Quotes to Explore
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
Tanya Tucker
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
Warren Buffett
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
Mary Hunter Austin
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I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.
Alan Zweibel
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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
Walker Evans
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How can you worry about pleasing people critics and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.
Elliot Easton
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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I have no prejudice against male or female.
John Lone
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
Richard Pryor
