Richard Pryor Quotes

You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

Richard Pryor

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• Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Someone
  • Been

• We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Understand
  • Innovation
  • Top

• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  

  Karen O
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • World
  • Rest
  • Missing

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Mum

• I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Day
  • Justice

• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • You
  • Saying

• The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Long

• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Art
  • College

• 'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Song
  • River

• When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Writing
  • Dad

• There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • World
  • Control

• I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Free
  • Tea

• I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Remember

• It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Think
  • Daughter

• Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

  

  Grant Hart Hüsker Dü
  • Paper
  • Document
  • Handy

• A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Good
  • Soul

• To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Christ

• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Soul
  • Care
  • Scary