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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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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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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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.
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Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.
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No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
