Richard Pryor Quotes
I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.Richard Pryor
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
Adam Brody -
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
Rand Paul
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher -
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus -
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
Captain Beefheart -
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 -
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
Max von Laue -
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
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The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
Charlie Rose -
I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.
David Rabe -
The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.
Kristin Gore -
I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.
Billy Eichner -
A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.
Doug Liman -
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
Agnes Smedley
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I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
Arijit Singh -
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King -
People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!
Eric Metaxas -
It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.
Jean Pigozzi -
I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
Jason Blum -
I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Richard Pryor