Mel Brooks Quotes

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

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• I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Love
  • Want

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • New
  • New York
  • Suburbs

• Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Music
  • You
  • Routine

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Water

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Support
  • System
  • Capitalist

• Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Great
  • Money
  • Done

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • People
  • Pay
  • Protect

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Control
  • Morning

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Women
  • Party
  • Conservative

• A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • She
  • Opportunity
  • Hair

• Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Women

• Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Long
  • Struggle

• There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Important

• There are a lot of hardcore 'Napoleon' fans, and they do the research and find photos of what I look like when I'm not 'Kip-ified.' Those fans recognize me. It happens maybe once a week, where someone will come up to me and be, like, 'Dude, you're Kip.' And I'm, like, 'Yeah, my name's Aaron.'

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Up
  • Name
  • Week

• Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

  

  Jean Monnet
  • Men

• I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

  

  Mel Brooks