Morrie Ryskind Quotes
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
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I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
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Right after 'Idol,' I was like, 'I've got to become a totally different person. I gotta upgrade myself.' I can't just stand there and be all shy and sing.
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My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
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You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.
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Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.
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Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
