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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When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.
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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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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
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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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When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want to listen to what your parents listen to anymore; you want to find your own music. That, for me, was hearing the Fugees for the first time.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
