Richard Pryor Quotes

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

Richard Pryor

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• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Wrong
  • Anything
  • Anybody

• When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Blood

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Marriage
  • Problems
  • Doctor

• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Character
  • History
  • Face

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Success

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Small
  • Gun

• Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Country
  • Law
  • Peace

• All in the waning light she stood, The star of perfect womanhood.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Light
  • Perfect

• Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Game
  • Baseball

• When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

  

  Liu Wen
  • Friends
  • English

• Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

  

  Dawn French
  • Interesting

• No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

  

  David Spade
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Weird

• When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

  

  John Vanbrugh

• A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Gay

• I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World
  • Remember
  • Soul

• Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Eyes

• Creation is a drug I can't do without.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Creative
  • Drug
  • Creation

• Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Drug
  • Calling
  • Folks