James L. Brooks Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
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I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
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Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.
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I have a lot of nightmares.
