Mel Brooks Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
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A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
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Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
