James L. Brooks Quotes

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

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• You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Part
  • Leo

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Find
  • Tough
  • Atmosphere

• Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • World
  • Work
  • Peace

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Environment
  • Better
  • More

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Help
  • Gay
  • Born

• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Guitar

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Single

• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Distance
  • Laughter

• I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Very
  • Much
  • Favor

• Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Power
  • Political
  • Earth

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Family
  • Blue
  • New

• Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

  

  Kurt Vile

• Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Time
  • Real
  • Book

• We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

  

  Genevieve Behrend
  • Realize
  • Possibilities
  • Greater

• I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • History
  • Road
  • Fatherhood