James L. Brooks Quotes
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
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I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.
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Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.
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Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
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Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall - I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein's new fragrances is kind of surreal.
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Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
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I'm big on research.
