Richard Pryor Quotes

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

Richard Pryor

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• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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  • Never
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• We need to see a Palestinian state.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
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• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
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• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
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• Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
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• If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• I'm a total foodie.

  

  Dana Goodyear
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• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
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• I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Place
  • Characters
  • Influences

• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
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  • Best

• Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Country
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• I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Movie
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• I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowlFifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow

  

  T.I.
  • Candy

• It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Money
  • Fool

• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Passion
  • Horse
  • Force

• I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.

  

  Donna Air
  • Life
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• Yet it's true that looks matter in politics... It is also true that perfecting the outer shell has become an obsession in this country... Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and John Edwards almost always look good, and pretty much the same, in dark suits or casual wear. Fred Thompson always looks crepuscular and droopy. Often Hillary Clinton looks great, and sometimes she looks tired, heavier or puffier.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Country
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Ignorance

• I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Funny
  • Car
  • Tired