James L. Brooks Quotes
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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I hate celebrating birthdays.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.
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Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
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These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.
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I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
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We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
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The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
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A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
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If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
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I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
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There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
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Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.
