Mel Brooks Quotes
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
J. August Richards -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
Daniel Bryan -
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey -
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
Kanye West
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells -
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
Nancy Gibbs -
Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
Barry McGee -
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
Fay Wray -
I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
Edith Piaf -
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz -
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren Bennis -
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Zaha Hadid -
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer -
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
Raf Simons -
I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
Pat Paulsen
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I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
Daniel Radcliffe -
My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.
Parvesh Cheena -
Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.
John Mayer -
In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
Angela Ahrendts -
If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.
Don Lemon -
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Mel Brooks