James L. Brooks Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
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To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.
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You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.
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Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
