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

• it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Rest

• 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

• I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!

  

  Astrid S
  • Life
  • Up
  • Singing

• 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

• I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Moving

• The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

  

  Charles Ritz
  • Quality
  • Effort
  • Boat

• Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Animal
  • Wealth
  • Cities

• I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • People
  • Insanity

• I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Fear
  • Taken
  • Insanity

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Insanity