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

• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• 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

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• 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

• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• 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

• Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• 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

• Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Health
  • Space
  • Simple

• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  

  Geno Auriemma
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Player

• A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.

  

  Christopher Lloyd
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Guy

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • People
  • Way
  • Running