Morrie Ryskind Quotes
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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I think abortion is murder.
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I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.
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Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.
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I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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Live, for I love you!
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.
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Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.
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One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
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Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.
