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ARI GRAYNOR I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just ...
BOB SAGET I never listened to them, ... I grow from the inside out. I said to Roman, 'I met this man, I met hi...
BEN KINGSLEY The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
BOB NEWHART When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all...
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JESSI KLEIN The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actua...
KENDRICK LAMAR I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be gre...
KID CUDI When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
MOLLY RINGWALD I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
ARTIE LANGE I never met a human being in my life who didn't like this kid.
DENNIS WEAVER The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all...
PAULY SHORE As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still le...
GEORGE CARLIN I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a const...
PAUL MOONEY I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who ...
USHER Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can ...
LARRY COHEN I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a ...
RICH MOORE No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow...
STACY SCHIFF I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Rich...
TAMRON HALL All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never b...
KIRK DOUGLAS Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
LEE IACOCCA I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who we...
ROB LOWE On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; t...
DAVID DOBKIN George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY I think comedians partially use it for shock value. They know it makes people uncomfortable, so they...
CHRISTOPHER MILLER When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all ...
MARC MARON When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, ...
ARTIE LANGE I dont wanna be a terrorist. I just wanna Blow shit Up!
ROZZU LOZ I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told m...
MARCO RUBIO I have already met one million youth and when they grow up what they will say about me is most impor...
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CHASKE SPENCER I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
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CHARLIE ROSE i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
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LANDON DONOVAN At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave ...
KEVIN HART I'm that kid in the corner all f***ed up and I wanna so I'm gonna
BEASTIE BOYS I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the close...
ALAN CUMMING I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
MAYA RUDOLPH When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people gen...
ERIC ANDRE It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I ...
GOLDIE HAWN The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of c...
PAUL MOONEY By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.
STEVE MARTIN Medicare D is very, very bad. I've never met anybody who thinks it's a good idea.
STEPHANIE MILLER I don't know if I have met a true genius. I do know that if I have met a genius, that they were neve...
RALPH DOWNEY III The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quiete...
DALE MAYS I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, w...
FRAN LEBOWITZ First time I met Brand, I said, 'This is not gonna be good.' I saw who I was working for. I didn't t...
BOB KNIGHT I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if ...
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SEAN PAUL Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...
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P.G. WODEHOUSE As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
STEVEN SPIELBERG When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and t...
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but...
GOLDIE HAWN The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.
RICHARD PRYOR He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
JOHN STEINBECK And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who t...
NORMAN JEWISON I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main di...
AARON TVEIT People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he'...
HANNIBAL BURESS It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech an...
RON WHITE Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud.
"Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little gir...
MICHAEL GRANT When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
RIP TORN I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to nam...
KEVIN HART I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonde...
FRAN LEBOWITZ I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few y...
BEN QUAYLE Some girls want to be a princess when they grow up. I wanted to be in a bad bitch girl gang.
NATALIA KILLS I was definitely blown away when I saw that I was going to get a kid who was the Southwest (regional...
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JOHN PERKINS I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thi...
COLIN MOCHRIE The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my...
SHANE WARNE I don't wanna be anywhere else; I love this place. I always said if I were to lose my house, I'd be ...
DEBBIE WILLIAMS I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thoug...
NORMAN JEWISON I don’t want a job. When I grow up I want to be rich.
ANDY WEIR They said that they wasn't letting anybody go because they were evacuating they city, even guys who ...
KEITH ROGERS I have never met a man who refuses to be blessed by God. I have met many people who are not in capac...
RIAAN VAN WYK I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who cham...
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RICHARD ENGEL This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS