Richard Pryor Quotes

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

Richard Pryor

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Serious
  • Living

• I love Channing Tatum!

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Jewish

• Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hat

• Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Film
  • Boxing

• I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Evil

• The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Desire

• When a person is haughty, he distances himself from other people and thereby deprives himself of one of life’s biggest pleasures-open, joyful communication with everyone.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Life
  • Communication

• Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  

  Frederick Wiseman
  • Thoughts
  • Lawyer

• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Literature

• I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

  

  Betty White
  • Children
  • Career
  • Justice

• I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.

  

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Work
  • Live

• That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Men
  • Love

• When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

  

  Richard Pryor
  • People
  • Way
  • Running