Richard Pryor Quotes

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

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• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Health
  • Day

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• I can't play a character that I am judging.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judging

• I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Kind
  • See
  • Emotion

• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Mad
  • Dangerous
  • Go

• If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Long
  • Me
  • Process

• You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guy
  • You
  • Kind

• I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

  

  Edward Luck

• Play well with others.

  

  Adena Friedman

• Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Game

• Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Wrestling
  • Greek

• The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

  

  Adelina Sotnikova
  • Dream
  • Strong

• We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • World
  • War
  • Suffering

• I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Political
  • September

• I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Single
  • Husband
  • Baby

• I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• Lists have always implied social order.

  

  David Viscott

• People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

  

  Brian Acton
  • People
  • Relationship

• When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Loses
  • Likes

• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Why
  • Generation

• 'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Movie

• I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Life
  • Children
  • Movie

• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  

  Richard Pryor
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