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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  • Deserve
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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
  • Crazy
  • Never
  • Too Much

• 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
  • Life
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• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• 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
  • Military
  • Army

• 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
  • Great
  • Music
  • Guy

• '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
  • Friends
  • Together

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

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• I'm a total foodie.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Total

• 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
  • Men
  • Women

• 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
  • Different
  • Best

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

  

  Salman Khan
  • Country
  • Cinema
  • Celebrate

• 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
  • Fire
  • Alive

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

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Time
  • World

• 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

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Power
  • War
  • Magic

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

  

  Charles Bronson
  • Rock

• I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Money

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Funny
  • Car
  • Tired