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.'
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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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.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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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.
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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.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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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.
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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?
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.
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I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
