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

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • World
  • Real
  • Friend

• 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

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• 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

• Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Giving
  • Better
  • Creativity

• 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

• War is not a thing one wants.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Thing
  • Wants

• It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Horse
  • Turned
  • Parenthood

• 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

• I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Influence

• When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Brain

• What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Missing
  • Fury
  • Testosterone

• There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Celibacy
  • Promiscuity

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Scary
  • Scared