James L. Brooks Quotes
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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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.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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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.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
