Richard Morris Quotes
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
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I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
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Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.
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As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.
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I don't think about the media.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I consider myself a businessman, not a celebrity or a music star. When I'm getting involved with something I need to executive produce it or be a part of putting it together as an investor. I want to play both sides. That's more important to me than just being a celebrity.
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You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
