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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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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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 hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.
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When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
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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.
