Richard Pryor Quotes

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Serious
  • Determined

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fear
  • Constitution
  • Debate

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Sound
  • Test

• I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Just

• Love is metaphysical gravity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Love Is

• What say you to such a supper with such a woman?

  

  Lord Byron

• Toni: Mamá... MAMÁ! I'm paying peak long-distance rates here. Could you save the Hail Marys until we hang up?

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Distance

• My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Up
  • Live
  • She

• With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • World
  • Brother

• Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Live
  • Wish

• Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

  

  Max von Laue
  • Acceptance

• When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Remember

• I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • Real

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Constant

• 'Cause I've got friends in low placesWhere the whiskey drownsAnd the beer chases my blues away.And I'll be okay.I'm not big on social graces;Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.Oh, I've got friends in low places.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Friends
  • Beer
  • Whiskey

• One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

  

  Carmen Ejogo
  • World
  • Music
  • Career

• I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

  

  Richard Pryor
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