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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I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.
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I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.
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The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
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Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch.
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I don't want to intimidate people. There's nothing bullyish about me, you know. If there's anybody who's anti-bully, it's me.
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
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Every day carries with it a responsibility.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
