Richard Morris Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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I never have anything to talk about.
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When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
