Richard Pryor Quotes

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

Richard Pryor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005

Topics

New YorkSomeoneNewHardEveryone

But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!

Jessica Sanchez

MusicBornOldBeingLikeSingers

I don't tend to go totally bare, but on non-filming days, I will only wear tinted moisturiser, mascara, blusher, and a ChapStick for my lips.

Meghan Markle

LipsGoWillDaysWearOnly

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

LoveAgeYouProtectSomeDoes

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.

Steven Hall

CrazyThinkEdgeSometimesOutHigh

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I use them as a fashion accessory.

Tony Vincent

GreatGlassesFashionThinkNeed

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Tom Lantos

PowerFreeGenerationPoliticalFlow

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

CreativityBuildingsPrinciplesWill

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

Tom Clancy

LifeChangeWorldYouDreamNothing

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

LifePoetryPeopleThinkForgetOut

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

Ruben Studdard

MotherYourselfPeopleMeOpinion

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

Juan Gabriel

SchoolSimplicityPeopleStreetsLot

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

Janis Ian

KingWorldProblemsThinkThought

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