James L. Brooks Quotes
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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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.
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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.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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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.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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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.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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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.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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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.
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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.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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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.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.
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With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
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I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
