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

—Richard Pryor

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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential comedians ever. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy...

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We seem to live in a society that lacks communication. When you try to communicate, you're called a radical, a communist, dirty, a Republican, or something to let you know you're not speaking their language.

—Richard Pryor

More quotations tagged with “criticism”

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

—Native American Proverb

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

—Jean Sibelius

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

—Henry Fielding

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

—Harold Rosenberg

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