James L. Brooks Quotes

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James L. Brooks

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• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Find
  • Architecture

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Sorrow

• I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Love
  • Bad

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • Going
  • Content

• All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Just
  • Internal
  • Well-Rounded

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Like
  • Individuals
  • Punished

• It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Young

• As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• I want you to be mine, again, babyI know my lifestyle is driving you crazyAye, I cannot see myself without you

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Driving

• The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Garden

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.

  

  Chuck Schumer
  • People

• Chi poco pensa, molto erra.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Success
  • Thoughts

• Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Believe
  • Criticism

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Yourself

• Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Important
  • Help
  • Food

• I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • Dance
  • Model
  • Communication

• When I moved to the United States from Asia in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?

  

  Geena Rocero
  • Change
  • United States
  • Moved

• I'm a journalism junkie.

  

  James L. Brooks