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

• 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

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

  

  Matthias Schoenaerts
  • People
  • Deep

• Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Believe
  • Sun

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Together
  • Light
  • Champion

• I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

  

  Luke Evans

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

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Sexy
  • Marketing