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.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
Ralph Marston -
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Jacky Ickx -
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas -
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.
Hailey Gates
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian -
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
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.
Vanilla Ice -
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci -
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.
Hamlin Garland
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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.
Ulysses S. Grant -
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?
Vernor Vinge -
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
Lindsay Pearce -
I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.
Kristen Bell -
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead -
When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
Eric Cantona
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I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.
Ezra Furman -
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
Lao Tzu -
The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Russell Bowie -
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack -
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks