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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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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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.
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An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
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2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
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I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
