Richard Pryor Quotes
If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.Richard Pryor
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble -
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
Zoey Deutch -
As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
Ofra Strauss -
I never read the tabloids.
Dana Carvey -
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
Adam Michnik -
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
Carlos Ghosn -
I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
Naomie Harris -
Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.
Sam Kean -
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
Vicente Fox -
I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.
Les Claypool
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This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We're telling the story of 'Daredevil.' In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience.
Elodie Yung -
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Marquis De Custine -
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
Mary Beth Patterson -
I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
David Milch -
I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.
Mariel Hemingway -
We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and I think that kind of helps us stay focused on what's important - and that is the music, our fans, and our families.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
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Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
Paul Weyrich -
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.
Jonathan Zittrain -
A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and conservative on the other. As much as we may be a country of mavericks and entrepreneurs, we are also a country of finger waggers and name-callers. As much as we may be a country of compassion for the underdog, we are also a country that believes in self-reliance.
Edward Hallowell -
Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
Jack Kerouac -
A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
Gerald Maxwell Rivera -
If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.
Richard Pryor