Richard Pryor Quotes

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • America
  • History

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Advice

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Enjoy
  • Process
  • Far

• Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Down

• Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Action

• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Done
  • Past
  • I Have Learned

• I don't love traveling, because I'm never home. It's hard when you have a family.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Hard

• I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Situation

• It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Done
  • Regret
  • Not Done

• I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Future
  • Past
  • Feels

• I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

  

  Akon
  • Causes
  • Next
  • Steps

• So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Suffering
  • Comfort
  • Distress

• When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Famous

• Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.

  

  Cyrus the Great
  • Freedom
  • Wealth
  • Act

• I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.

  

  Richard Pryor
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