Richard Pryor Quotes

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

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• I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Love
  • Funny

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating

• Manipulated, one manipulates others.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Mother

• It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Cool

• YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

  

  Connor Franta
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Color
  • Days

• Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Kind

• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • America
  • Los Angeles
  • Extreme

• I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Country
  • Business

• Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Faces
  • Extraordinary
  • Charm

• Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

  

  Michele Bachmann
  • Stupid
  • Republican
  • Environmental

• The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

  

  Cesar Romero
  • Makeup
  • Bothered
  • Wig

• It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

  

  Noureddine Morceli
  • Better
  • Performance

• If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

  

  Erin Brockovich
  • Believe
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

  

  Richard Pryor
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