Mel Brooks Quotes
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
