Max Brooks Quotes
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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A light on Marmion’s visage spread,And fired his glazing eye:With dying hand, above his head,He shook the fragment of his blade,And shouted 'Victory!-Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!'Were the last words of Marmion.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: 'All a blowing and a growing.' It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
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Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
