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
  • Information

• 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

• 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

• Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

  

  Tyson Chandler

• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  

  Daniel Webster

• Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • World
  • Job

• Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Lost
  • Risk
  • Red

• We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

  

  Bronagh Gallagher
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• 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