Richard Pryor quote: "I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!"

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
RICHARD PRYOR

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
RICHARD PRYOR

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, ...
RICHARD PRYOR

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking...
RICHARD PRYOR

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, n...
RICHARD PRYOR

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ash...
RICHARD PRYOR

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
RICHARD PRYOR

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almo...
RICHARD PRYOR

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes...
RICHARD PRYOR

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay p...
RICHARD PRYOR

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
RICHARD PRYOR

I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the p...
RICHARD PRYOR

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing some...
RICHARD PRYOR

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
RICHARD PRYOR

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
RICHARD PRYOR

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
RICHARD PRYOR

Everyone carries around his own monsters
RICHARD PRYOR

I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the po...
RICHARD PRYOR

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
RICHARD PRYOR

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
RICHARD PRYOR

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
RICHARD PRYOR

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that...
RICHARD PRYOR

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends th...
RICHARD PRYOR

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
RICHARD PRYOR

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have...
RICHARD PRYOR

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
RICHARD PRYOR

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.
RICHARD PRYOR

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deploy...
MARK PRYOR

This is the first time that we've shown these to the public. People have got to see what these kids ...
CAMPBELL PRYOR

It's kind of like the dance world's equivalent of the Olympics.
CAMPBELL PRYOR

She's very controversial. But she really has done a lot for the pop and dance scene. (Her music) alw...
CAMPBELL PRYOR

Our contemporary program has grown so much that it warrants its own show. We get equal recognition f...
CAMPBELL PRYOR

Most of the schools that go to this are much larger schools. For a school of our size to compete wit...
CAMPBELL PRYOR

This calls into question a lot of the policies that have been put forward in the last few years abou...
CAROL PRYOR

The distinction between uninsured and insured isn't as simple as it used to be. When we look at peop...
CAROL PRYOR

There is a growing awareness at all levels of how broken our system is becoming. Health insurance is...
CAROL PRYOR

The findings again call into question the whole approach of shifting more costs onto consumers with ...
CAROL PRYOR

These findings are clearly consistent with findings elsewhere. They point to a common problem.
CAROL PRYOR

This report does confirm and reinforce a lot of things that we know have been happening. One is that...
CAROL PRYOR

And small increments increased the likelihood of problems.
CAROL PRYOR

If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ...
CARLTON PRYOR

Globular clusters are old and give us a limit on the age of the universe. The universe couldn't be y...
CARLTON PRYOR

All the stars in a cluster are the same distance away, so you can compare brightness without having ...
CARLTON PRYOR

If you plot the distribution of clusters, you discover that almost all of them are on one side of th...
CARLTON PRYOR

If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ...
CARLTON PRYOR

He's got a lot of tenacity and natural ability. I think we're all going to know his name around the ...
BAILEY PRYOR

Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not h...
MARK PRYOR

It's hard for me, because I really do love the kids.
AZJA PRYOR

It's Neverland. I don't know who would want to escape,
AZJA PRYOR

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will co...
MARK PRYOR

It's very difficult for consumers to go to the gas pump and pay record high prices for gas and then ...
MARK PRYOR

She told me they were going to Brazil for carnival, ... I said, 'Sure, I'd love to go.'
AZJA PRYOR

Arkansas has been very generous,
MARK PRYOR

If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ...
CARLTON PRYOR

It's one of those things, I think we'll know it when we see it. I certainly start with the presumpti...
MARK PRYOR

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a...
MARK PRYOR

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no dou...
MARK PRYOR

What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors...
MARK PRYOR

Our goal is to establish as many new connections to lower Manhattan as possible.
STEFAN PRYOR

I'm a big leader by example. I'm not the most verbal person.
CHELSEY PRYOR

You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR

If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ...
CARLTON PRYOR

Basically we're asking you to call it a MORB instead of a MARB. Using the term mining advancement im...
CYNTHIA PRYOR

We all had agreed on specific language that would note at what point a violation would occur - once ...
CYNTHIA PRYOR

We knew going in that there would be areas that the work group could not all agree on. But the DEQ h...
CYNTHIA PRYOR

Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events ...
KAREN PRYOR

He will go through some examples of different recreation centers.
JIM PRYOR

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)
MICHAEL PRYOR

This is a new age in America. We must rise to the challenge, and working together, we will become a ...
MARK PRYOR

In today's rapidly changing and volatile world, the United States must stay at least one step ahead ...
MARK PRYOR

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
MARK PRYOR

We saw Kyle on tape and saw his transcripts and the rest is history. I think what happened is some o...
PRYOR ORSER

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginnin...
WILLIAM H. PRYOR

I believe that abortion is morally wrong.
WILLIAM H. PRYOR

Because it’s not our mistakes that define us, but what we do about them.
LINDSAY J. PRYOR

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL

When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
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

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

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