Richard Pryor Quotes

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Richard Pryor

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• I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Break
  • Now
  • Modern

• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Business
  • Free
  • Cooperation

• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Change

• The Katrina matter was terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Matter
  • Terrible
  • Katrina

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• The royal duty of non-opposition is a reminder that the legitimacy of government is founded on the consent of the people, who may withdraw their mandate at any time if they lose confidence in the ability of the ruler to serve their best interests.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Believe
  • Waiting

• My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • She
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

  

  Christina Perri

• I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

  

  Eric Church

• When I dress up in costume, it always starts with the wig for me. Big wigs and big headpieces are so fun, and they give you confidence and make you feel powerful.

  

  Chris March
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Powerful

• As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Diversity

• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Body
  • Cover up

• In the Bernstein Manual there is a short chapter on undercover work. The first line says, in capital letters, AVOID UNDERCOVER WORK.

  

  Eoin Colfer
  • Work

• Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler

• The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Time
  • Music
  • Fashion

• These guys are teachers, and you can see it watching any of their practices, much less their games. You can watch (the ESPN program) 'Knight School' and see that he still loves to be in a coaching situation. I know he gets a little frustrated with the losses sometimes, but he's still out there doing it.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • School
  • Games
  • Coaching

• If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Different
  • Popular

• i doubt the validity of those claims to godhood which are derived from mystical experiences, either self- or drug-induced. (and there are no other claims to godhood except those derived from insanity or derangement.) i doubt the subjective experience, auberson, because it cannot be passed on, nor can it be proven, measured or tested.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Experience
  • Doubt
  • Drug

• A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Idea
  • Responsible
  • Enlightenment

• That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Insanity