Mel Brooks Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
