Richard Pryor Quotes

In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Kiss

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Politics
  • Mad

• I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Thanks
  • Genetic

• Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Contemporary

• Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Together
  • Fear

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Trust
  • Winning

• For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Like
  • Down
  • Piano

• Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

  

  Lawrence Block
  • Why
  • Future

• When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Die

• In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Heart
  • March
  • Scared