Richard Pryor Quotes

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

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• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Like
  • Him
  • Smoke

• If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Myself
  • Anything
  • Marxist

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Pat Robertson doesn't worship the cross. He worships the fucking dollar sign.

  

  Pat Robertson

• When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I think I have good judgment.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Good

• When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • World
  • Hate

• My populism doesn't extend to my choice of hotels.

  

  James Carville

• If Paul Ryan wants to talk about the soul of America, I ask him to look into his own soul. Because if he is saying we have no soul, he certainly has a hole in his. He needs to understand that every single person in this country has a right to expect that their government will take care of them in their greatest need.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Country
  • America
  • Soul

• I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Live

• I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Father

• I go to museums all the time.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Time

• On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Camera
  • Wander
  • Pickup

• I think you're kind of seeing the real me as far as seeing what I post on social media, because I am very much into cooking, and my dogs, and obviously my son, and my lifestyle in Santa Cruz is very laid-back.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Real
  • Son
  • Cooking

• Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • Mean
  • Dog

• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Words
  • Discipline
  • Author

• Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.

  

  Cecile Reynaud
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Persons

• My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Mean
  • Discipline
  • Grandmother