Mel Brooks Quotes
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven’t had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
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There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.
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I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
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A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.
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I like the present and tomorrow
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
