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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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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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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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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I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.
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There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.
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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.
