Richard Pryor Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
Dan Pink -
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
Fatema Mernissi -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
T-Pain -
It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
Flume
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt -
I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
FKA twigs -
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
Karl Rove -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza -
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
Zac Posen -
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm pretty stubborn.
Bart Stupak -
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
Kangana Ranaut -
Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
Zach LaVine -
No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
Damien Hirst -
If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
Edward R. Murrow -
Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. (The TMZ Show)
Charlie Sheen
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin -
The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.
Peter Hollingworth -
I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.
Patty Jenkins -
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor