James L. Brooks Quotes

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

James L. Brooks

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • You
  • Take
  • Shots

• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Will
  • Two
  • Drink

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Society
  • Science

• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Words
  • Language
  • Learn

• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moving

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Islamic
  • Islam
  • Physical

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • School
  • Age

• I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Creating

• A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• Military families are resilient through countless relocations, leaving friends, networks and transitioning to new schools and new jobs while fitting in to new communities.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Friends
  • Military
  • Leaving

• I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Sexy
  • Marketing